The appointment came amid mounting speculation over who would receive the top cabinet posts.

在这项任命的同时，对谁将受邀加入内阁，人们有了越来越多的猜测。

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He poked around the top of his cabinet for the bottle of whisky that he kept in reserve.

他在壁橱的上面翻找他留的那瓶威士忌。

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For a few moments he turned his back to me. He opened the top drawer in the high black and gilded writing cabinet.

他打开那个已经泛黑的金色柜子，背朝着我有几秒钟之久。

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The state still has a massive role, with top cabinet ministers all acting as chairmen of the board of big state run companies like oil and gas major Gazprom.

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Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad, who became emir in 2006, has exercised his privilege of giving family members top cabinet posts, repeatedly choosing his nephew, Sheikh Nasser Muhammad, as prime minister.

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President-elect Obama completed his top Cabinet selections Friday, saying his team of advisers can meet the economic challenges that lie ahead but warning that recovery will be years in the future.

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