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Red tape
  Explanation: Text: the provisions of the ceremony; adorned: many; sections: manners. Too complicated ritual or ceremony. Also be used to spare the other tedious matters.
  Usage: Joint type; as subject, object, clause; negative, suggesting an analogy cumbersome, redundant
  Source: Sushi Song "festival co-Bian on the knoll discussion": "eliminating red tape distal, the rural-year-old can be."
  Examples: Do not know how the Southern Song than today, but a foreign enemy, but obviously has to concede defeat, but only in the domestic as well as Trinidad and Tobago ~ broken nagging words. (Lu Xun's "grave view mirror Thoughts")
No. 2
  Cumbersome and unnecessary amenities, but also cumbersome and unnecessary metaphor other matters. Said Fan Wenru ceremony.
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fán wén rù jié
  Cumbersome and redundant manners. Also refers to cumbersome and unnecessary matter or procedure
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No. 4
  Culture is culture, and culture with a lot of unnecessary red tape, not charged with this matter, also it need not he destroyed. - Lao She, "Four Generations"
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No. 5
  See "Fan Wenru ceremony."
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No. 6
  词 目 繁文缛节 使用频率 常用
  发 音 fán wén rù jié
  释 义 文:仪式。缛:繁多。节:礼节。繁琐的仪式和礼节
  出 处 清·魏源《治篇十一》:“以繁文缛节为足黼太平。”
  示 例 办事要讲求实效,不要那么多~。
  近义词 附赘悬疣、连篇累牍
  英 文 red tape
  用 法 联合式;作主语、宾语、分句;含贬义,比喻烦琐、多余
成语词典
  成语名称 繁文缛节 汉语拼音 fán wén rù jié 成语释义 文:规定、仪式;缛:繁多;节:礼节。过分繁琐的仪式或礼节。也比喻其他繁琐多余的事项。 成语出处 宋·苏轼《上圆丘合祭六仪》:“仪者必又曰:省去繁文末节,则一岁可以再郊。” 使用例句 不知道南宋比现今如何,但对外敌,却明明已经称臣,惟独在国内特多繁文缛节以及唠叨的碎话。
  ★鲁迅《坟·看镜有感》
English Expression
  1. :  excessive bureaucracy, esp in public business
  2. n.:  Red tape,  mumbo jumbo,  prolix style and hackneyed rites,  unnecessary and overelaborate formalities
Thesaurus
emptiness, babble, screed, superfluous words and sentences, Fuzhuixuanyou, floods of ink, messy; sloppy; slovenly; drag through mud and water, And pages tissue, Even sometimes of prodigious compilation, Of pages of Du, at great length
Antonym
distance can't keep you two apart, skyline next-door, Narrow strip of water, Across the water, very close amongst, the point, tangle, give the essentials in simple language; important statement need not be prolix, very near as if just a few feet away, Near the as close to the eye as the eyebrows and eyelashes