dead hand

英文造句：

1. Even if you pay two times the money, you can not expect to possess the building which is now in a dead hand.
   即使你出雙倍的價錢也不能指望得到那幢建築，因它現在屬於某個社團，不能轉讓。
2. The dead hand of bureaucracy is slowing our progress.
   官僚主義的流毒拖慢了我們的進步。

英文解釋：

名詞 dead hand:

1. real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation)
   同義詞：mortmain
2. the oppressive influence of past events of decisions
   同義詞：dead hand of the past, mortmain