他本人算不得一个好的行政官员,尽管在他需要的时候他能有效地运用统计资料,可他对数字的掌握却不够好。
He is not much of an administrator himself: though he can use statistics to good effect when he wants to, he has no great grasp of figures.
他是地方行政官员,也就是说是文官。
He's a local government administrator, that is to say a Civil Servant.