机器政客：指那些依靠政治机器和组织来获取选票和政治权力的政治家。
Mr Rangel's critics will have none of this. But some comfort themselves with the belief that he is the last of a dying breed of machine politician.
也许此言对兰格尔先生的批评者无益，但他们中一些可以自我安慰的相信兰格尔是政客们最后的一个繁衍。
But the question many people in Blackpool were asking was whether choosing an old-fashioned machine politician as leader was really the best the party could do.
Mrs Clinton remains a formidable candidate an experienced and intelligent politician, backed by a state-of-the-art political machine.