在权贵于法庭之上为影响力和主导权而斗争时，他们的私人恩怨和纷争往往会给公众福利带来损失。

As powerful individuals vied for influence and dominance at court, the general welfare was often sacrificed to private rivalries and ambitions.

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他还周游欧洲设法游说前来访问的苏联权贵，甚至有两次从芬兰通过免签证入境旅行而悄悄溜入苏联与其相见。

He travelled round Europe to try to lobby visiting Soviet bigwigs, and even managed twice to slip into the Soviet Union on visa-free day trips from Finland to see her.

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该国许多商界权贵都与前安全机构有关系，即便他们否认从这种关系中获利- 这种事本来就很难说。

Many of the most powerful businessmen in Romania have links to the Securitate, even if they deny having benefited from such relationships — something that is, by its nature, difficult to prove.

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In either case, they regard him as surreptitiously taking the side of the people against the nobles.

二者都把他看作是秘密地,站在人民的立场上反抗权贵的人。

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These are the guys who run Amsterdam.

这些人是阿姆斯特丹的权贵们

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Most of us most of the time hold these beliefs as a matter of faith as a matter of belief because we have learned about them from childhood because they were written by Thomas Jefferson or some other reputed high authority.

大部份的人一向将这些信念,奉为信仰，信条,因为我们从小,就是这样受教育,也因为它们是由托马斯？杰斐逊,及其它著名权贵所写。

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