They accused the former president of being a backseat driver.
他们谴责前总统是个专门干涉他人事务的人。
Newspapers have been fulsome in their praise of the former president.
报界对前任总统的赞扬过于恭维了。
Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.
土耳其和希腊是反苏国家与前苏联之间的缓冲国。
The original elections were declared void by the former military ruler.
原来的选举被前军事首领宣布为无效。
The former military ruler of Lesotho has been placed under house arrest.
莱索托前军事统治者已被软禁了。
She dropped only eight points in the 43-minute thrashing of the former champion.
她在轻松击败前冠军的43分钟里，仅失掉8分。
One of the main beneficiaries of the early election is thought to be the former president.
前总统被认为是早期选举的主要受益者之一。
He had to choose between giving up his job and giving up his principles. He chose the former.
他得在放弃工作和放弃原则二者中择其一。他选择了前者。
Western countries were moving ahead with plans to send financial aid to all of the former Soviet republics.
西方国家正推行对所有前苏联国家提供经济援助的计划。
The former US ambassador to Ireland has behaved most undiplomatically by describing his two years in Dublin as "very, very boring."
前美国驻爱尔兰大使称他在都柏林度过的两年“非常非常无聊”，这是不符合外交习惯的。
They grappled with the problem of connecting the electricity and water supplies. The former proved simple compared with the latter.
他们设法解决供电和供水的连接问题。前者与后者相比证明很简单。
他选择了前者。
To be frank, I prefer the former to the latter.
坦白来讲，比起后者，我更喜欢前者。
With the former, however, you get it by giving it.
然而，对于前者而言，你要付出才能得到它。
He proved himself a worthy successor to the former Prime Minister.
他证明了自己是前首相的称职继任者。
Human beings differ from animals in that the former is capable of using language.
人类与动物的不同在于前者能够使用语言。
These days, you can even see the former Commandante rocking a Carl Lewis-like tracksuit.
这些天，你甚至能看到前任司令官穿着一身卡尔·刘易斯风格的运动套装。
To assume the former audience was familiar with every work Wideman ever penned would have been pretentious.
如果认为以前的观众熟悉威德曼写过的每一部作品，那就太自负了。
The former ethic suggested success was founded on integrity, modesty, loyalty, courage, patience, and so forth.
前一种伦理认为，成功建立在正直、谦虚、忠诚、勇气、耐心等的基础上。
If the former are greater, the lake is a surface-water-dominated lake; if the latter, it is a seepage-dominated lake.
如果前者较大，这个湖就是一个以表层水为主的湖泊；如果是后者，则是一个以渗漏为主的湖泊。
George Burt, the former manager of the West Coast Beet Seed Co. in Salem, helped set up this system before he retired.
俄勒冈州塞勒姆的西海岸甜菜种子公司的前经理伯特在退休前帮助建立了这个系统。
Affected industries clung to the former wildlife policy of valuing individual species according to their economic usefulness.
受影响的行业坚持以前的野生动植物政策，即根据其经济价值对单个物种进行评估。
The former offers more excitement and convenience while the latter offers a cleaner, quieter and often friendlier place to live.
前者提供了更多的刺激和便利，而后者提供了一个更干净、更安静、通常也更友好的居住环境。
Ludacris and the former CEO of Bank of America Ken Lewis are alumni of my college, as well as VICE's first female editor-in-chief, Ellis Jones.
卢达克里斯和美国银行前首席执行官肯·刘易斯，以及《VICE》的第一位女主编埃利斯·琼斯，都是我大学的校友。
Since the former is most common among those inclined towards indifferent relationships, their predominance can bolster individuals' sense of self-worth.
由于前者在那些倾向于淡漠关系的人群中最为常见，它们的优势可以增强个体的自我价值感。
LDV, the collapsed Birmingham-based van maker, has been bought by Dr Qu Li, who controversially advised the Phoenix Four, the former owners of MG Rover.
总部位于伯明翰的货车制造商LDV已被李曲博士收购，李曲博士曾是罗孚汽车公司（MG Rover）前东家“凤凰四董事”的顾问而备受争议。
"Harry has never left our thoughts," said the former greengrocer, from Kidderminster, "I remember a policeman came to our door to give mum and dad the news."
“哈利从来没有离开过我们。”这位来自基德明斯特的前蔬菜水果商说，“我记得有个警察来过我们家，把这个消息告诉了爸爸妈妈。”
Today it exceeds any country but Japan, where industrial employees log 2,155 hours a year, compared with 1,951 in the US, and 1,603 in the former West Germany.
如今，它已超过了除日本以外的任何国家。日本的工业员工每年工作2155小时，而美国的这一数据为1951小时，前西德为1603小时。
Following the Harvard scandal, Mary Miller, the former dean of students at Yale, made an impassioned appeal to her school's professors to refrain from take-home exams.
哈佛丑闻发生之后，耶鲁大学前学生事务主任玛丽·米勒慷慨激昂地呼吁教授避免学生在家考试。
The former head of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, which oversees heritage sites, is Francesco Bandarin, a Venetian who now serves as UNESCO's assistant director-general for culture.
负责监督遗产地的联合国教科文组织世界遗产中心的前负责人是弗朗西斯科·班达林，他是威尼斯人，现在担任联合国教科文组织文化事务助理总干事。
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