Policy wonks have long dreamed of simplifying America's tax code.

制定政策的学院派长期以来一直梦想着能简化美国的免税代码。

I like to cut them on the wonk, a little bit slanted.

我喜欢把它摆在圆盘上，稍微有点倾斜。

Hence an idea popular among policy wonks: to improve vocational schools and government training schemes.

改进职业学校和政府培训计。

Today, free trade is promoted by stale policy wonks and rapacious executives, nothing like the broad, energetic coalition of the past.

如今，自由贸易与过去广泛而积极的联盟不同，相反是由陈腐的政策书呆子和贪婪的高管推的。

Scholars are often greatly excited by " natural experiments" , events that end up separating two groups of people, allowing wonks to compare their subsequent behaviour.

学者通常醉心于“自然实验”，这种实验最后会把实验人员分开，让书呆子能够对比下来的行为。

By contrast, Mr Biden's CEA-an advisory body of wonks that aims to ground the president's policies in sound economics-may be the most progressive in recent memory.

相比之下，拜登的顾问委员会——一个旨在使总统的政策在稳健的中得到贯彻的专家顾问机构——可能是近年来最为进步的。

The White House chief of staff must be a policy wonk, legislative mastermind, political guru, management whiz and trusted presidential adviser all rolled into one.

白宫办公厅主任必须身兼政策专家、立法策者、政治大师、管理能手和可信赖的总统顾问等多种职位于一身。

A host of Republican grandees, from Haley Barbour, a former governor of Mississippi, to Paul Ryan, the party's leading budget wonk, rushed to denounce the Heritage report.

一群共和党政要，从密西西比州前州长哈雷巴博(HaleyBarbour)，到共和党首席预算专家保罗•雷恩（Paul Ryan），旋即批评传统基金会的报告。

During this campaign Mr Gingrich has consistently claimed that he frightens, and is running against, “the Washington establishment”, which is of course laughable; he served ten terms in Congress before becoming a “consultant”, think-tanker and free-floating policy wonk.

竞选中金里奇一直宣称，害怕，但又将反对”华盛顿权贵“到底，这一说法显然十分 可笑。早在金里奇成为一名”顾问“，智囊团成员和随波逐流的政策专家之前，就已 连任十届国会成员。