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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

machine politicians

Booker warned that they would face a brutal battle with unions and machine politician.

Who are machine politicians? I consider them as some politicians whom stand for the working class?
  

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r=66 I didn't know what it meant either.

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  • r=66 I didn't know what it meant either.
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machine politician: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/machine+politician?r=66

I didn't know what it meant either.
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Thank you for your help. But it's hard to find out a corresponding phrase in Chinese....
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It can also be an idiom for corruption. In American history, it usually references Tammany Hall's Boss Tweed or Daley's Chicago.
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rpshBut it's hard to find out a corresponding phrase in Chinese...
Try "corrupt politicians", "corrupt officials", or the equivalent.

CJ
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Could you give me some regerences or links?
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rpshCould you give me some regerences or links?
No. I just made an educated guess that in Chinese you'd need something like that. In the end, it's your decision how to translate it.

CJ
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