Sir Humphrey

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A high-ranking bureaucrat, particularly one who is elitist and deliberately obscure. UK
    — Wanted: a Sir Humphrey for funds to hide behind [...] Key skills required: — Ability to move head vertically rather than horizontally when asked to promote anything desired by the fund management companies who pay your salary — Ability to confuse fact with fiction via misleading random statistics (a mathematics skill would be helpful here) — Ability to pull wool over the regulators’ eyes while maintaining a straight, poker-like face — Ability to come up with new reasons à la Humphrey from Yes Minister, as to why any progressive change that might help the consumer is currently unworkable.

词形变化

Sir Humphreys plural

词源

From the fictional character Sir Humphrey Appleby, a self-important, Oxford-educated civil servant first depicted in the 1980 premiere of the BBC television series Yes Minister.
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