Some scholars argue that the concentration of water within the urban core of these sites provided a centralized source of political authority for Maya elites based largely on controlled water access.
一些学者认为，集中在这些地点的城市核心区的水资源为玛雅精英提供了一个集中的政治权力来源，而这些权力主要是基于对水资源的控制。
They would have local people, sort of higher class and local elites bid for the right to collect local taxes, and so the Romans would take the highest bid.
他们安排当地人，算是上层阶级和本地精英，竞拍当地收税权，这样罗马总是能获得最高竞价。
But since then the non-elites have improved dramatically.
但从那以后，非精英学校得到了很大的改善。
Local elites have also played a vital role in spreading land deals.
在土地交易的扩张中，地方精英也起到了重要的作用。
But it is spreading rapidly among the middle classes and the elites.
但是，它是在中产阶级和精英阶层当中迅速传播的。
The result is that numerous colleges have narrowed the gap with the elites.
其结果就是越来越多的大学缩短了与精英大学的差距。
"We can do better," he says. "I'm worried we don't encourage our elites enough."
“我们能做得更好，”他说，“我担心我们对精英的激励还不够。”
They are the pride of their parents, elites of the nation and models of the time.
他们是父母的骄傲、民族的精英、时代的楷模。
There was, and is, much ideological overlap between the two parties, or at least their elites.
两党的思维方式曾经存在、现在依然存在不少重叠的部分，或者至少他们的精英有很多类似的想法。
The Gulf's ruling elites generally stayed in power and were reluctant to see the British leave.
当地占支配地位的精英一般都安于手中权力，不愿意看到英国的远去。
Future historians will marvel at the austerity madness that gripped policy elites in the spring of 2010.
未来的历史学家会吃惊于2010年春天被吓破胆的政策精英者做出的疯狂的紧缩计划。
Nixon made a virtue of his squareness by siding with America’s “silent majority” against the elites.
尼克松站在“沉默的大多数”（即普通美国民众）一边抗衡精英分子，把自己迫不得已的事包装成出于自己的正直品质。
They exist to break down the barriers of access that keep social elites at a remove from ordinary people.
侵扰性新闻作为的存在是为了打通普通民众和社会精英之间的屏障。
Nixon understood in his marrow how middle-class Americans felt about the country's self-satisfied elites.
尼克松深谙美国中产阶级如何看待国内自我满足的上层阶级。
Of course, not all of the hacking at the center of the News of the World scandal had to do with social elites.
当然，在世界新闻报丑闻的中心并非所有的黑客行为都涉及到社会精英。
Hey, upper east siders, gossip girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous life of Manhattan's elites.
上东区的贵族们，绯闻少女在此，我是你们唯一得到曼哈顿精英们丑闻的渠道。
If someone doesn't choose to be part of the elites, it's unclear to me that you can persuade them to change their mind.
如果有人不愿意成为精英，那么你就一不定能劝他们改变主意。
Perhaps I'm flattering myself (and you) but I think almost everyone who reads blogs like this one is part of the elites.
也许我在奉承自己（和你）但我想任何读像这样的博客的人或多或少地都是精英。
Neither Mr Chavez nor Mr Morales is from the "white" elites who, in caricature at least, have long ruled in the region.
查维斯先生和莫拉莱斯先生都并非来自白人精英阶层。这些白人至少像漫画所讽的那样长期统治着该地区。
The planet's real fault line is between elites and the middle class in some countries, and the bottom of the pyramid, everywhere.
全球范围内真正的断层线存在于一些国家的社会精英、中产阶级和金字塔底层人们之间，而且这种分化无处不在。
The Russians see Europe as a source of useful technology and a holiday destination; their elites spend time and own property there.
俄罗斯人将欧洲视为获得先进技术的渠道和休假的目的地；其精英人物更是选择在欧洲消磨时间和消费他们的财富。
Partly it is because Indian elites have long looked to America and then Europe for their education and business opportunities.
部分原因在于它的精英们长期关注美国和当时欧洲的教育和商业机会；
The elites of business, politics and the media gather in Davos, Switzerland, to solve the world’s problems at the World Economic Forum.
商、政及媒体精英会聚瑞士达沃斯世界经济论坛，讨论世界问题。
And yet Mr Cameron's plan to shift power from governing elites to communities and locally elected officials is a possible remedy for it.
可是卡梅隆先生将政府精英的权利转到社区和地方选举的公务员上或许能改善这个问题。
While urban elites attend private schools and study abroad, some 75 percent of the labor force only has a basic level of education or less.
尽管城市富人就读私立学校并留学海外，但仍有75%左右的劳动力只接受过初等或初等以下教育。
For similar reasons, a eulogy for elites and a pile of historical events don't appear relevant to this generation, born in the era of peace.
但是，抱着相似的初衷，这个对英雄和这一系列历史时间的歌颂影片同样赢得了这辈生于和平年代的人的喜爱。
The Russian elites have more spring in their step than at any time since my first visit there in 1981, and they've had enough of U.S. unilateralism.
“俄罗斯又回来了，自我1981年第一次访问俄罗斯，俄罗斯精英们大踏步前进的步伐中带进了更多的跳跃，他们受够了美国的单极主义。”
The Russian elites have more spring in their step than at any time since my first visit there in 1981, and they've had enough of U.S. unilateralism.
“俄罗斯又回来了，自我1981年第一次访问俄罗斯，俄罗斯精英们大踏步前进的步伐中带进了更多的跳跃，他们受够了美国的单极主义。”
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