同为国有公司，南非航空公司的前任首席官去年爆出经济问题而被开除。
The former chief executive of South African Airways, the state airline, was sacked last year over alleged financial wrongdoing.
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”。
Steve Jobs calls himself “chief know it all”. Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo!, call themselves “chief Yahoos”.
“要炒掉堂哥是件很尴尬的事，”宝格丽的执行首席官Francesco Trapani说。
“IT IS very tricky to sack a cousin, ” observes Francesco Trapani, the chief executive of Bulgari.
即便如此，首席官较之于总裁或挂有总裁二字头衔(如副总裁，总裁助理等)的人相比还是稀罕之物。
Even so, chiefs are relatively rare compared with presidents and their various declensions (vice -, assistant -, etc).
如果你身为某某首席官，人们只跟你说你喜欢听的，永远都会有问题。接受他人批评是件不容易的事。
If you're the chief anything, you always have a problem with people telling you what you want to hear. It's hard to get criticism.
“如果你身为某某首席官，人们只跟你说你喜欢听的，永远都会有问题，”瓦连补充说，“接受批评是件不容易的事。”
“If you're the chief anything, you always have a problem with people telling you what you want to hear,” adds Varian. “It's hard to get criticism.
阿曼达是全球媒体公司A+ENetworks的首席创意官。
Amanda is the chief creative officer at A+E Networks which is a global media company.
上周，我在电话上与洛杉矶TCW 的固定收益投资首席投资官TadRivelle 聊天。
I chatted on the phone last week with Tad Rivelle, the chief investment officer for fixed-income at TCW in Los Angeles.
“许多州仍试图定义远程医疗。”州医疗委员会联合会的首席倡导官丽莎·罗宾表示。
"A lot of states are still trying to define telemedicine," says Lisa Robbin, chief advocacy officer for the Federation of State Medical Boards.
电子支付公司CreditCall的首席技术官、支付安全专家杰里米·冈布利解释说：“每个磁条都有三条信息轨迹。”
"Each magstripe has three tracks of information," explains payments security expert Jeremy Gumbley, the chief technology officer of CreditCall, an electronic-payments company.
“我们曾以为这些设备的最大关注点将是对内容的消费。”杜克大学信息技术副总裁兼首席信息官特蕾西·富西说。
"We had assumed that the biggest focus of these devices would be consuming the content," said Tracy Futhey, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Duke.
百胜餐饮集团的首席财务官里克·卡鲁奇表示，“我们的想法是，通过在菜单上增加更多种类的食物，我们向消费者销售的产品可以满足他们全天的需要。”
"The idea is that by having a greater range of things on the menu, we can sell to consumers products they want all day," says Rick Carucci, the chief financial officer of Yum! Brands.
微软首席隐私官BrendonLynch 在博客中写道：“我们认为消费者应该有更多的控制权。”
Brendon Lynch, Microsoft's chief privacy officer, blogged "We believe consumers should have more control."
鉴于首席检察官已公开表示反对这一事实，他的机会看起来不好。
His chances do not seem good in view of the fact that the Chief Prosecutor has already voiced his public disapproval.
亚特兰大被四百多位企业首席执行官投票选为建立公司的最佳城市。
Atlanta was voted the best city in which to locate a business by more than 400 chief executives.
今年3月，《时代》杂志的年度风云人物奥巴马解雇了该公司的首席执行官。
In March its chief executive was fired by Time's current Man of the Year, Mr Obama.
但佳士得的首席执行官爱德华·杜尔曼表示：“我很确信我们正处于谷底。”
But Edward Dolman, Christie's chief executive, says: "I'm pretty confident we're at the bottom."
苹果公司首席执行官斯蒂夫·乔布斯自6周前休病假以来首次公开露面。
Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, made his first public appearance since going on medical leave six weeks ago.
标普500公司首席执行官的薪酬中位值在2008年下降了6.8个百分点。
The median pay for chief executives of S&P 500 companies fell 6.8% in 2008.
蒂姆·库克在8月份接替乔布斯出任首席执行官。人们普遍认为他很有能力，但缺乏激情。
Tim Cook replaced Jobs as chief executive in August, was generally regarded as competent but uninspiring.
每个人都有自己的痛苦，标准普尔500指数中非金融公司首席执行官的平均薪酬下降了2.7%。
There was some pain for everyone: median pay for chief executives of non-financial firms in the S&P 500 fell by 2.7%.
相比之下，在四家或更多公司之间跳槽的“跳槽者”成为首席执行官的平均时间至少为26年。
"Hoppers" who jump between four or more companies, by contrast, take at least 26 years on average to become chief executives.
但是每个人都有一些痛苦： 标准普尔500指数中非金融公司首席执行官的平均薪酬下降了2.7%。
But there was some pain for everyone: median pay for chief executives of non-financial firms in the S&P 500 fell by 2.7%.
Moo的创始人兼首席执行官理查德·莫洛斯说，这是因为实物名片是“通过设计传达持卡人的个性”。
Richard Moross, Moo's founder and chief executive, says that this is because a physical card "conveys the card holder's personality through design".
另一方是世界上市值最高的公司，其首席执行官蒂莫西·库克表示，他将对法院的判决提出上诉。
In the other comer is the world's most valuable company, whose chief executive, Timothy Cook, has said he will appeal the court's order.
在去年接受《经济学人》采访时，太空旅游公司维珍银河的首席执行官乔治·怀特赛兹将他的公司归为后一类。
In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.
他们在别处获得了财富和声誉，想必有足够的独立性来反对首席执行官的提议。
Having made their wealth and reputations elsewhere, they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive's proposals.
我希望能够与首席执行、首席财务官，以及所有主要的决策者同桌而坐。
I want to sit at the table with the CEO, with the CFO, with all major decision makers.
与他们的前辈相比，如今的首席执行官们需要运营更为全球化的公司。
Compared with their predecessors, today's CEOs are required to operate more globalized companies.
与他们的前辈相比，如今的首席执行官们需要运营更为全球化的公司。
Compared with their predecessors, today's CEOs are required to operate more globalized companies.
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