势力范围
6.a bureaucracy...chiefly concerned with turf...and protecting the retirement system.
7.U. S. RESPONSE TO ANGLO-SOVIET DIVISION OF SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IN THE BALKANS, 1944
8.Thus, the provinces in the lower and middle Yangtse valley were specified as the British sphere of influence; Yunnan, Kwangtung and Kwangsi as the French; Shantung as the German sphere; Fukien as the Japanese; and the three northeastern provinces (the present provinces of Liaoning, Kirin and Heilungkiang) as the tsarist Russian sphere. After the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 the southern part of the three northeastern provinces came under Japanese influence.
9.The Establishment of the Yalta System and the Setting Up of the Soviet Sphere of Infuence
