Someone else is pulling the strings.

有人在背后拉线操纵。

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It is "Putin who is pulling the strings," I read.

我还看到有人称“普金是牵线的人（译注：梅是提线下的木偶）”。

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He's authoritative, he knows everything that's going on, and so often he's pulling the strings.

也很权威，他知道正在发生的一切，经常在幕后进行操纵。

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We need something to be pulling the strings, to be directing the body.

应该是有什么在发出指令,引导肉体活动

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And so if we wanted to do this here, it's again, the same thing we're just now pulling back this layer and calling them char *s not actually strings.

如果我们想要在这里这样做，再次，我们撤销这一层,把它们叫做char，*s，实际上不是字符串。

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