Eurosceptics were swift to hail the votes as a rejection of the drive towards ever-closer union that had, they said, been foisted on reluctant voters by the European elite for 50 years.

欧洲怀疑论者迅速为之喝彩，他们认为两国的否决票是对欧洲精英阶层愚弄了50年的前所未有的联盟的一次拒绝。

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Most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small number of people.

大多数欧洲和亚洲的大学为一小部分人提供精英服务。

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Partly it was the dream of European unification, which the Continent's elite found so alluring that its members waved away practical objections.

部分原因在于欧洲统一的梦想，欧洲的精英们感到诱惑特别巨大，以至于其成员国偏离了实际的目标。

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It sets a powerful European elite against the old Greek enemy - chaos.

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Today, they have an up-and-coming manager, rather than a member of the European elite, and are looking at a seventh-place finish.

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The central point made by Mr Lieven's witty and impeccably scholarly book is that Russia owed its victory not to the courage of its national spirit or to the coldness of the 1812 winter, as some French sources have argued, but to its military excellence, superior cavalry, the high standards of Russia's diplomatic and intelligence services and the quality of its European elite.

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