eurocrat

eurocrat

1. A sceptical Eurocrat notes that finance ministries, say, are not loved: competence is enough.

一位对民意调查持怀疑态度的官员就指出像金融部门就不应该进行选举，因为竞争已足够激烈了。

2. One Eurocrat predicts an improvement in committees that are now packed with special interests.

一位欧共体官员预言委员会的发展必须符合几个特殊群体的利益。

3. The death of the European fast stream is “insane, insane”, groans one top Eurocrat.

一位欧盟官员叹息道：英国取消欧盟人才计划让人无法理解。

4. As one top Eurocrat sums it up, “the boldest choice for Europe would be the three Bs: Blair, Barroso and Bildt.

一位欧盟高官做出如是总结：欧洲面临的三个最大胆的人选抉择将是三个以B开头的名字，即布莱尔，巴罗佐和比尔德。

5. The Eurocrat elite in Brussels might not admit it, but the Treaty of Lisbon is essentially a constitution for a "country" called Europe.

布鲁塞尔的欧盟精英们未必接受它，但里斯本条约本质上是一个“国家”的宪法，这个国家被称为欧洲。

6. I had a good friend, a senior Eurocrat, now retired (whose early life was in China and who had visited the country on official missions).

我的一个好朋友是个已退休的欧洲官员，他早年曾经因公去过中国，并在那住过。

7. Europe had no idea the rest of the world was going to copy its standards, retorts a Eurocrat sweetly.

欧洲并不知道世界的其它国家将打算直接照搬其行业标准，一位欧共体官员不无喜色地反驳道。

8. At the time, its closure was described as “insane” by one top Eurocrat, and as “great news for the rest of us” by a diplomat from another country.

而那时，终止计划的决被一位欧盟的高级官员称之为“疯癫的”，某国的外交官称“这对我们大家来说是个好消息”。

9. The cynical Eurocrat has seemingly been proved right.

这位言语犀利的欧盟官员的话似乎得到了印证。