私人股本业是许多欧洲政治家的眼中钉。

The private-equity industry is the bête noire of many a European politician.

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“前国王有两个选择：要么从公众视线里消失，要么当一个眼中钉，”他说。

'the choice before the ex-King is either to fade out from the public eye or be a nuisance,' he said.

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她还很年轻，他心想，对生活仍有期待，她不明白在山涯上推下一个眼中钉丝毫不能解决问题。

She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

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