Johnson thought he had the board of directors in the palm of his hand.

约翰逊以为他已把董事会控制在他的掌中。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

We have all had a shaky hand and a dry mouth before speaking in public.

当众发言之前，我们都曾双手发抖，嘴巴发干。

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Several of his colleagues had a hand in his downfall.

他的几位同事对他的下台起了作用。

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"I was sworn-in one night and the next morning I had to get right to the job at hand,"

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On the other hand, if we had a quarter as much venture capital, I think that would be in the sense the world would contract too much.

换句话说，如果资金数是风险资本的四分之一，我想现在订立的合同,太多了。

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everybody was happy, everybody was smiling and laughing, almost everybody had a beer in their hand.

每个人都很开心，每个人都在笑，几乎每个人都手拿一杯啤酒。

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" When he left the committee room that day in 1973, Thompson wrote later, he barely realized he had in hand the evidence to determine, in the words of his boss, Senator Howard Baker, "what did the President know and when did he know it.

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However, if the implication is that businesses today only thrive because of previously established infrastructure which they had no hand in, then, by extension, the implication is also government built the infrastructure which businesses had no hand in.

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You cannot say it was a dirty trick by the Gore campaign at this point, although clearly a Democratic activist in Maine had a hand in it.

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