Most civil services still tend to be gerontocracies, where age and seniority are synonymous.

大部分公务还倾向于老统治，这一词年龄和资历的同义词。

The contribution of women to civil service has maximized.

妇女对公务的贡献达到顶峰。

The civil service has house-trained them to a man!

文官已把他们全部驯化了！

The senior echelons of civil services are a powerful arm of the state.

公务的高层国家的一个强大的臂膀。

The UN ambassador had high praise for the country's civil service.

这位联合国大使高度赞扬了国家的行政部门。

They say they will not disband Colonel Qaddafi's army, police or civil service.

他们称将不会解散卡扎菲的军队以及务和行政。

They move freely from one department to another as they ascend the civil service ladder.

随着仕途晋升，他们可以在部门间随意调动。

As well as the government and the civil service. The elite class also dominated the media.

包括政府和行政部门，精英阶层也主导了媒体。

But it is also a civil service, policeman of the single market and competition watchdog.

但这还一个行政部门，单一市场的督察，以及一个竞争监管机构。

To my Foreign Service officers and civil service colleagues, we all took the same oath of office.

我要对我们的外交和公务同事说，我们宣誓就职时的誓言一样的。

A few civil services—Singapore's is the obvious example—compete with the private sector for the best graduates.

一些民事部门—如新加坡的民事部门就一个明显的例子—他们能够与私营部门竞争优秀才。

Following in his father's footsteps, Eric spent decades in the civil service, including as a Philadelphia firefighter.

跟随父亲的脚步，埃里克在政府部门工作了几十年，包括在费城当消防。

The civil service matters too: Number 10 complains that it is being insufficiently zealous in implementing the government's agenda.

首相府抱怨无法赶不上完善政府计划。

During the campaign, Harrison had promised to enforce the civil service law that protected the job rights of government workers.

在竞选期间，哈里森曾承诺执行保护政府工作工作权利的公务法。

I'm 24 and I'm an economist in the civil service.

我今年 24 岁，公务部门的一名经济学家。

The police said the investigation had been opened because of information from a civil service inquiry as well as police assessments.

方表示，由于收到来自公务调查和方评估的信息，调查已经开始。

However, many of the students later returned to China had made significant contributions to China's civil services, engineering, and the sciences.

虽然这次留学活动未能圆满成功，但这一批留学生回国后对于中国之现代化均有贡献。

There's a specific civil service exam for police officers.

察有专门的公务考试。

At church services, he prepared a series of sermons for the civil service.

在教堂做礼拜时，他为文职准备了一系列的说教。

Well, to understand it, you have to know the meaning of the term " civil service."

嗯，要理解它，你必须知道“公务” 一词的含义。