Bickering in public and on the back benches belies a strikingly businesslike atmosphere in Whitehall.

无论公众面前还是政府内部，双方喋喋不休的争论反英国白厅避免了商界般的暗斗。

Experience has shown that these monkeys display the simian equivalent of the Whitehall studies' findings.

实验经过表明，这些猴子所表现出来的是英国白厅研究发现的猴子版本。

Lucy Fisher is the FT's Whitehall editor.

露西·费希尔是《金融时报》白厅编辑。

She's our Whitehall editor and the host of our Political Fix podcast.

她是我们的白厅编辑，也是我们政治修复播客的主持。

Hop on at Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan.

在曼哈顿下城的白厅码头登船。

They're just not very interested in sending bits of blue paper to Whitehall.

他们就是不怎么想往白厅上交蓝纸。

And it's put in a basement somewhere in Whitehall.

然后被放进白厅某处的地下室里。

I'm only proposing failure standards for local government, not here in Whitehall.

我只是提出给地方政府设置失败标准又不是在白厅。

Oh yes. For the whole Civil Service in Whitehall.

是的给白厅的公务员用的。

After all, we have two of the four Deputy Secretaries currently in Whitehall.

毕竟白厅目前四个副常务次官里有两名就是来自我部。

It's nothing to do with you or Whitehall.

跟你和白厅无关。

Minister, if the Prime Minister is behind a scheme, Whitehall on its own cannot block it.

大臣，如果首相要搞阴谋，光凭白厅制止不了。

Now, gentlemen, frankly, this Department has got to cut a great swathe through all this stuffy Whitehall bureaucracy.

好了，先生们，看来这个部门必须冲破紧绑的官僚体制的束缚。

Yet a report published on September 4th, The Destruction of HM Treasury, says Whitehall's leviathan should count its days.

但是9月4日出版的报告《英国财政部的破坏》指出白厅兴风作浪的时日无多了。

But would you agree that there's even more bureaucratic waste there than there is in Whitehall?

但您是否也认为那里的官僚浪费现象比白厅还严重？

You're not in Whitehall now, you know.

家里可不是白厅。

Aparently there are 90 Civil Servants in Sunderland except the duplicating the work of 90 more here in Whitehall.

在森德兰就有 90 名公务员明显在重复白厅这儿另外 90 个从事的工作。

Decent city governments can be liberated to do their own thing, even as Whitehall tightens its grip over weaker ones.

虽然白厅对政绩不佳的城市加强了控制，但诚实可信的城市政府可以自其是。

I'm not swanning down from Whitehall.

我这不叫从白厅跑来。

So this figure prompted a lot of hand-wringing in Whitehall.

所以这个数字在白厅引起了很大的恐慌。