A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.

充满野心勃勃、阿谀谄媚之人庞大、腐败机构，既搞工作也搞麻烦。

Every clause, every punctuation mark, every plot twist, puzzle, and factoid is engineered precisely to flatter our intelligence.

每一个从，每一个标点符号，每一个曲折情节、谜团和花絮都是为谄媚读者智商而精心设计。