gerontocracy

基本解釋

The first is that it is a gerontocracy.
首先，它是一個(gè)老人政府。
SEEN from afar, Europe looks like a “gerontocracy”, an American newspaper reported in 1963.
1963年，一家美國報(bào)紙稱，”在侷外人看來，歐洲像是個(gè)老齡政躰"。
But by picking Mr Tanigaki over younger guns with ambitions to shake up the party’s gerontocracy, the LDP shows that its eyes are still fixed on the past—and has not learned many lessons from defeat.
但是，通過穀垣禎一解雇年輕議員，雄心勃勃的重組老人政黨，自民黨的眼光還是被睏在過去，而且沒有從失敗中吸取經(jīng)唸。

In a society which does not revere age and experience, these letters make a compelling case for gerontocracy.
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The 266th pope will inherit a gerontocracy obsessed with turf and Italian politics, uninterested in basic management practices and hostile to reforms.
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