gerontocracy

gerontocracy

1. "a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy" (Paul Krugman)

“拥有无限权力的老人政府所主宰的世界”(保罗·克鲁曼)

2. But business, too, is often a slow-moving gerontocracy, hidebound by a reluctance to let creative individuals make quick decisions.

不过日本商界常常也是一个行动迟缓、处在老人统治下的领域，固守着一种不愿令富有创造力的个人快速作出决断的心态。

3. In fact, the gerontocracy has few legal underpinnings;

事实上年长者统治并无法定依据；

4. In fact, the gerontocracy has few legal underpinnings; rather it has to do with culture and tradition.

事实上年长者统治并无法定依据；这只是事关文化传统。

5. It helps, too, that he died young, at 39: as a member of the Cuban gerontocracy he would hardly have become the James Dean of world politics.

他39岁英年早逝的事实也有所帮助：事实上如果作为现在古巴老年政治结构的一份子，他很难成为世界政坛的詹姆斯?迪恩。

6. For the citizens of China, Indonesia, and Russia, which together account for over 1/4 of the world's population, a sickly gerontocracy means perpetual speculation and uncertainty.

对于共占四分之一的世界人口的中国，印尼和俄罗斯人来说，一个病态的老人统治政府意味着无穷的疑虑和不确定性。

7. Although the population is now mainly black or mulatto and young, its rulers form a mainly white gerontocracy.

尽管全国人口现在主要是年轻的黑种人或黑白混血儿，他们的领导人却形成了一个以白人为主的老人政权。

8. The Regent found the idea odd-as he had the puzzling gerontocracy the Robotech Masters had favored.

瑞金特觉得这是个奇怪的想法，正如机器人统治者的老人政府让他产生的迷惑。

9. The first is that it is a gerontocracy.

首先，它是一个老人政府。