rond-de-cuir

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɹɒ̃ də ˈkwɪə/    美 /ɹɔn də ˈkwɪɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A French bureaucrat or functionary; an office worker.
    — In 1893, Georges Courteline immortalised France's petty bureaucrats in a satirical novel called Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir, after the leather cushions that civil servants sat on. The "ronds-de-cuir" are still ridiculed and detested. Like Courteline's bureaucrats, the tormentors of the préfecture derive sadistic pleasure from sending people away for ever more documents.
  2. A pen-pusher. colloquial,derogatory

词形变化

ronds-de-cuir plural

词源

From French rond-de-cuir.
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