查询词典 run hither and thither

No lines of demarcation, setting apart administrative from non-administrative functions, can be run between this and that department of government without being run up hill and down dale, over dizzy heights of distinction and through dense jungles of statutory enactment, hither and thither around ""ifs"" and ""buts,""""whens"" and ""'howevers,"" until they become altogether lost to the common eye not accustomed to this sort of surveying, and consequently not acquainted with the use of the theodolite of logical discernment.

没有一条用以区别行政和非行政职能的界限可以从政府的这个部门划到那个部门，而不用像翻山越岭那样，要跨过其高度使人昏眩的分界群峰和穿过由法律规章所组成的稠密丛林，并且随时随地碰到的都是一些&如果&和&但是&，&既然&与&无论如何&之类的词语，直到这些界限在不习惯于这一类调查方法，并且不熟悉使用进行逻辑识别的经纬仪的人们的眼里变得完全辨别不清时为止。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。