This sense of entitlement is crucial to understanding why people misbehave in high office.
这种权利意识对了解人们为什么在高位上会胡作非为具有关键意义。
Many people, even in high office, rest in the balmy complacence of assurance that science can solve everything.
许多人，甚至高级官员停留在沉醉于自信科学能解决任何问题。
Mr Terkel introduced Barack Obama to the crowd as an intellectual, wondering aloud whether Americans deserved that sort of person in high office.
特克尔先生将巴拉克·奥巴马引荐给众人，不过他也心存疑虑：美国民众是否真的需要这样一位知识分子来执掌国家。
Men in high office - as well as celebrities such as David Letterman and Tiger Woods - find themselves presented with lots of opportunities to stray.
身居高位的男人-以及如大卫·莱特曼和老虎-伍兹之类的名人-发现自己有很多寻欢作乐的好机会。
Such a phrase covered a multitude of sins - having two wives, taking life easy, getting paid before doing a service, putting relatives in high office.
这个词概括了一大堆坏现像，如娶两个老婆，醉生梦死，办事先要钱，搞裙带风等等。
Some may wonder whether the time will come for Mr Cheney, perhaps for reasons of ill-health, to stand aside and to allow a rising Republican the advantage of a spell in high office.
这使人猜想或许切尼可能借机以健康为由辞职，腾出位置让共和党的新星进入高层作为替换。
High Towers, a company that occupies several office buildings, is considering installing new energy efficient lightbulbs in its buildings.
高塔公司占据了几座办公大楼，该公司正考虑在大楼里安装新的节能灯泡。
If a high five or an equivalent can in fact enhance performance, on the field or in the office, that may be because it reduces stress.
如果在球场上或者办公室，击掌或者类似的行为确实能够提高表现，那可能是因为这减轻了压力。
The office vacancy rate in downtown stands at 21%-higher than it was four years ago, during the dotcom slump, and almost twice as high as the Silicon Valley average.
城市中心区办公用房的空闲率达到21%，比四年前网络经济泡沫期间的空闲率还要高，更几乎是硅谷的两倍。
There is also no new office supply due in the prime business district until 2010, while the influx of skilled Labour is running at high levels adding to the demand pool for properties.
此外，在2010之前新加坡主要的商务区几乎没有新的办公置业供给，而与此同时来自外面的技术性劳动力涌入使得对于地产产生需求。
The budget office says that in the absence of a stimulus plan, the unemployment rate would rise above 9 percent by early 2010, and stay high for years to come.
预算办公室称，如果没有刺激计划，失业率将在2010年初时攀高至9%或以上，并在接下来几年持续走高。
If you find that you are always the last one to ture off the light in your office, it is high time you thought over seriously how you could avoid being the last one.
如果办公室里每天晚上最后一个关灯的人都是你，不如认真考虑一下：怎样才能不做最后一名？
Today, the main girl who bullied me in high school came into my office apologizing and pleading for a job. I'm still thinking about it. MMT
今天，高中时候总是嘲笑我的那个女孩走进我的办公室道歉，并且希望从我这儿获得一份工作。我还在犹豫。
Today, the main girl who bullied me in high school came into my office apologizing and pleading for a job. I'm still thinking about it. MMT.
今天，高中时候总是嘲笑我的那个女孩走进我的办公室道歉，并且希望从我这儿获得一份工作。我还在犹豫。
On a recent afternoon Osbaldo Hernandez, 18, sat beaming in the college counsellors' office of Hancock High School.
近日的一个午后，十八岁的奥斯巴尔多·赫尔南·德兹坐在汉考克高中学校辅导员办公室里，脸上洋溢着灿烂的笑容。
“But the number of job applicants who cannot calculate 10% of 10 is staggering, ” she says, sitting in an office piled high with pink bars of soap and yellow plastic ducks.
“但是应聘者中不能计算10的10%等于几的人数众多，这太令人难以置信了”，她说。 她坐在办公室，办公室里粉红色香皂块和黄色的塑料鸭子堆的很高。
Women can don the slipper-like footwear to hike or drive to the office in comfort, then switch back to their high heels when they arrive at work.
女士们可以穿着这种拖鞋式的鞋子舒服的步行或开车去上班，当她们到办公室以后再换回高跟鞋。
In MOST countries the dogged pursuit of an inflation target is not a help in seeking high elected office. But it seems Brazil may be different.
在大多数国家，固执地追求通货膨胀的目标对于问鼎更高的民选职位完全帮不了忙，但似乎在巴西有点不大一样。
Questionnaires by the Home Office show that people have in fact become quite a lot happier with the crime situation in their local area, but that worries about the national crime rate still run high.
内政部的一份问卷调查显示，事实上人们对于他们当地犯罪形势的好转已经大为满意了，然而对于全国犯罪率的担心仍然居高不下。
The word multitasking began appearing in the “skills” sections of résumés, as office workers restyled themselves as high-tech, high-performing team players.
同时进行若干工作这个词，随着办公室的白领们逐渐转型为追求高效和高科技，也开始出现在人们的履历表里。
Amidst all this to-ing and fro-ing, our office landlord gave all tenants in the building six months' notice to vacate, due to their plan to redevelop the premises into a high-end apartment block.
在一片喧闹之中，我们公司办公室的房东也向全体租户发出了限期六个月搬离的通知，原因是他们计划要改建高档公寓。
A 17-year-old boy, caught sending text messages in class, was recently sent to the vice principal's office at Millwood High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
在加拿大新斯科舍省哈利法克斯的米尔·伍德高中，最近有一位17岁的男生被抓到在课堂上发短信，随后他被送到了副校长的办公室。
Don't go for the office store perforated ones, either; get them professionally done and in a high quality.
不要去追求办公室式的打孔名片，把他们设计的专业而有品质。
Brazil has shown it is willing to suffer sky-high interest rates in order to keep a lid on prices: shortly after Lula took office, they reached 26.5%.
巴西过去曾表示愿意承受偏高的利率以抑制物价︰鲁拉上台后不久，利率一度高达26.5%。
In Egypt Joseph gained favor with the pharaoh and rose to high office, owing to his ability to interpret dreams, and his acquisition of grain supplies enabled Egypt to withstand a famine.
在埃及，由于解梦的能力，以及取得谷物补给让埃及度过饥荒，约瑟受到了法老赏识且担任高官。
In this case, it was a high-stakes bet between two office-mates, neither of whom cared to back down.
这下清楚了，两个同事在打赌，哪个都不愿意让步。
Stevens worked for a year and a half at the admissions office at an elite liberal arts college, traveling to high schools mainly in the Western U.S. and the East Coast to recruit applicants.
史蒂文在招生办公室工作了一年半，主要往返于美国西部和东海岸的各个中学招生。
Stevens worked for a year and a half at the admissions office at an elite liberal arts college, traveling to high schools mainly in the Western U.S. and the East Coast to recruit applicants.
史蒂文在招生办公室工作了一年半，主要往返于美国西部和东海岸的各个中学招生。
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