For the moment, it constitutes their chief danger.
就目前而言，它构成了他们的主要危险。
But if improving their hunting luck was the chief motivation for the paintings, it is difficult to explain why only a few show signs of having been speared.
但是，如果增强他们的狩猎运气是这些画的主要动机，那么就很难解释为什么只有少量画作有被长矛刺过的迹象。
"They blame it on the manufacturing recession," says Birgit Klohs, chief executive of The Right Place, a business development agency for western Michigan.
密歇根州西部商业发展机构TheRightPlace的总裁比尔吉特·克洛斯说：“他们将其归咎于制造业衰退。”
It is already the chief engine of productivity in the rich world, and thus holds out the tantalising prospect of sustaining economic growth on the cheap.
这已经是富有国家生产力的主要引擎，从而带来了维持廉价的经济增长这个不明朗的前景。
But it is also, in oil terms, the world's chief hope.
但从石油方面来说，它也是世界的主要希望。
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
我渴望完成伟大而高尚的任务，但完成那些自认为伟大而高尚的微小的任务却是我的主要职责。
Eric Cantor, G.O.P. Congressman from Virginia and Republican chief deputy whip: it was almost as if panic had struck the capital.
埃里克·康托尔，G.O.P.弗吉尼亚州国会议员和共和党首席代理人指出：好像有人喜急了首都一样。
Joining SAP as the head of its French subsidiary in 1988, he never worked on creating the firm's software, but only sold it, becoming its chief salesman in 2002.
自1988年加盟SAP的法国分部以来，他从未参与制作过公司的软件。他只做销售，并且在2002年成为和销售总监。
It looks as if knowing a chief executive disrupts the ability to judge his performance.
好似在说，对一个公司总裁的了解会干扰对其业绩判断的能力。
'it flew beautifully,' said Virgin Galactic chief executive George Whitesides.
“它飞行的姿态实在太漂亮了，”维珍银河公司首席执行官乔治·怀特·赛德斯如是说。
This week it appointed an interim chief executive as shareholders decide who should get the job.
本周该公司任命了一个临时总裁，而股东将决定由谁来接手这份工作。
It is the chief cause of the wasteful infrastructure spending that blights Japan's landscape.
这正是挥霍的基建开销摧残了日本风景的一个主要原因。
In the absence of other powerful laws, it has become the chief weapon of environmentalists-and the bane of landowners and property-rights activists.
在缺乏其它有效法律的情况下，动物法成了环保人员的首要武器，也成了农场主和物产权支持者的克星。
The chief reason was that it could resist pressure from outside investors, because it is almost impossible to take over.
最主要的原因是公司几乎不可能被收购，因此管理层能够抵御外部投资者的压力。
Asked this week if he's committed to it, Obama's slick chief negotiator, Jonathan Pershing, said the US was still looking at the science.
当本周内被问及是否会对此做出承诺时，奥巴马的首席谈判代表，精明的乔纳森·潘兴说，美国仍然在寻求科学证据。
Mr Laws said he opened the note expecting some advice only to find it read: "Dear chief secretary, I'm afraid there is no money."
劳斯说，他打开纸条时，还以为能找到点有用的建议，没想到上面赫然写着：“亲爱的首席秘书，我不得不告诉你，我们已经没钱了。”
Its chief significance is that it heralds the advent of far more vigorous competition in the telecoms industry.
它最重要的意义就是它开创了电信业更加激烈竞争的局面。
Another hospital chief executive said: "Ideally it should be 100% of frontline staff having the swine flu vaccine."
另一个医院的首席执行官说：“理想的情况下，100%的第一线员工应该都进行猪流感接种。”
Mr Hyatt, the chief executive, thinks it will eventually be half or more.
公司总裁海厄特先生认为以后会占到一半或者更多。
Steve Jobs calls himself “chief know it all”. Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo!, call themselves “chief Yahoos”.
史蒂夫•乔布斯把自己叫做“无所不知首席官”，杨致远和大卫•菲洛自称“首席雅虎”。
Coming from what was once the temple of inflation fundamentalism, it is akin to the chief rabbi calling for reconsideration of kosher laws.
这番发自昔日通胀原教旨主义圣殿的呼声，简直堪比大拉比(犹太学者——译者注)在呼吁反思犹太律法。
It is my responsibility, as the chief technical and administrative officer, to manage this Organization efficiently.
作为技术和行政首脑，我的责任是有效管理本组织。
It begs the question: how many chief executives are truly indispensable?
这就引发了一个疑问：有多少执行官是真正的不可或缺的？
CBI Chief Economic advisor Ian McCafferty says it will be a tough time.
该机构的首席经济顾问麦克·卡弗蒂说，到时候，情况将非常艰难。
CBI Chief Economic advisor Ian McCafferty says it will be a tough time.
该机构的首席经济顾问麦克·卡弗蒂说，到时候，情况将非常艰难。
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