of or relating to an authority or public body and its duties, actions, and responsibilities 官方的 the prime minister's official engagements. 首相的官方事务。 ■having the approval or authorization of such a body 获准的;被授权的 members would know when industrial action is official. 工会会员们会知道罢工行动何时将得到授权。 ■employed by such a body in a position of authority or trust (受雇于)官方的 an official spokesman. 官方发言人。 ■emanating from or attributable to a person in office; properly authorized 源自官方的,来自官方的;经正式授权的 official statistics. 官方统计数字。 ■(often derogatory)perceived as characteristic of officials and bureaucracy; officious (常贬)官僚的;官气十足的 he sat up straight and became official. 他坐直身子,变得官气十足。
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a person holding public office or having official duties, especially as a representative of an organization or government department 官员 a union official. 一个工会官员。 ■(亦作 official principal)(Brit.)the presiding officer or judge of an archbishop's, bishop's, or archdeacon's court (英)(主教法庭的)主持官员