2.A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
充满、阿谀谄媚之庞大、腐败官僚机构,既搞工作也搞麻烦。
3.He would flense the corruption from the bloated bureaucracy that strangled the august government and reform it, as a new, more powerful, more secure institution.