一位欧盟高官的参加峰会的同事跟他说道：“在澳大利亚最小的村子里，人们甚至都在讨论希腊的人民公投。”
One senior European official recounts how he was told by a fellow participant: “Even in the smallest village in Australia they are discussing the Greek referendum”.
20国集团峰会的官员说，这个协议将要求银行拥有更多的现金储备，也将要求银行高官的工资与银行盈利业绩挂钩。
G-20 officials say the deal will require Banks to hold more cash in reserve (in case their investments go bad).
克里姆林宫高官的回忆录及其少见，这一本尽管谈不上最权威，但它提到了好几份之前不为人知的有关瓦伦堡的文件。
Memoirs from high-ranking Kremlin officials are exceedingly rare, and this one, while hardly definitive, contains several references to previously unknown documents on Wallenberg.
但是事情远没这么简单，跟英国历届政客无异，对于北欧诸国，卡梅伦还是颇为好奇的。用英国一高官的话来说，‘北欧不缺各种行之有效的“主意”。’
But beyond that, Mr Cameron-like other British politicians before him-is sincerely curious about the Nordic nations, home to what one senior figure calls "brilliant ideas working well".
让我们把时间倒回到1980年，那时的盖茨还处在只被允许租用汽车的年纪，可他已经能够走进全是IBM高官的房间里并向他们兜售自己手头甚至还没有的商品。
Back in 1980, when Gates was barely old enough to rent a car, he walked into a room filled with IBM execs and sold them a product he didn't even have.
国务院负责东亚事务的最高官员仍未确定，不过这更多的是由于参议院的怠惰。
The top East Asia specialist at the State Department has still not been confirmed, though that has more to do with the Senate's sloth.
欧洲高官们已经建立了迅速补救货币市场的机制。
Europe's officials have created mechanisms to stump up rescue money quickly.
一位高官表示，这将是追求“过渡目标”的一年。
It will be a year of pursuing "interim goals", says a senior official.
一位希腊高官抱怨，欧洲的姿态意味着希腊是在被迫实施IMF式的财政紧缩，却没有得到任何财务援助。
A senior Greek official complained that Europe's stance means his country is having to impose IMF-style austerity — but without receiving any financial assistance.
目前，俄罗斯四分之三的高官曾供职于克格勃或其它安全和军事部门。
Three out of four senior Russian officials today were once affiliated to the KGB and other security and military organisations.
然而，实际上这类案件被审判是相对罕见的，因为高官们不希望坐上证人席。
However, it is relatively rare for such cases to actually go to trial because often top officials do not want to be placed in the position of having to testify.
6名通用高官透露他们已将剩余的通用股票全部售出。
Six senior executives at GM disclosed that they had sold all their remaining stock.
他曾经担任过内阁高官，并且对当下许多极其紧迫的议题做过大量深受欢迎的学术研究。
He is a former cabinet official who has also done well-received academic research on many of today's pressing topics.
这些公司都非常精明，它们深知，少数几个公司高官缺乏足够的信息来对公司众多不同部门的各种投资选择进行识别和排序。
These corporations were smart enough to know that a small corporate staff did not have the information to identify and rank investment choices in their myriad of different divisions.
据北部卡诺市的一位高官透露，在9百万居民中就有2百万穷人。
A senior official in Kano, the northern capital, says 2m of the 9m residents are beggars.
基辛格探讨这个问题是采取了向后看的方法，1907年英国外交部高官艾尔·克劳威爵士写的备忘录。
Kissinger addresses this question by looking to the past, a memorandum written by a senior official of the British Foreign Office, Eyre Crowe, in 1907.
然而，有些人认为这一报告是有偏见的，因为部分作者曾是石油产业的高官。
Some, however, contend the report was biased against plug-ins by its panel of authors, some former oil industry executives.
该机构为公司在重大决策诸如重组和收购其他企业提供咨询服务，而在离职后他利用在这家强势机构里所打造的关系网获得不少高官要职。
He parlayed the connections he made in that powerful shop, which advises firms on big decisions like restructuring and buying other firms, into a number of plum perches afterwards.
苏格兰皇家银行和劳埃德银行的高官斯蒂芬·赫斯特和艾瑞克•丹尼尔也不相上下。而这两家银行都是部分国有的。
So too are Stephen Hester and Eric Daniels, the top brass at RBS and Lloyds, both of which are part-owned by the state.
而且，在白宫威胁下对几个高官设定象征性的工资上限，这种回应过于软弱无力。
And symbolic caps on a few top executives, as the White House is threatening, are too feeble a response.
不过，就像我所提到的，这些日子华盛顿的高官们看起来都不在乎就业的问题。
But, as I said, these days Washington doesn't seem to care about any of that.
案例研究有了新的含义，现在高官们面临更严厉的高层决策和大规模的业务问题。
Case studies have new meaning, now that executives face tougher decisions and large-scale business problems.
沙特国王已组成了一个由12人组成的委员会来解决这一纠纷，巴林的公诉人也不时对高官们进行质询。
Saudi Arabia's king has formed a 12-member committee to resolve the dispute, and Bahrain's public prosecutor is questioning executives from time to time.
布什先生需要提醒他的高官们：特别是在一个超级大国，一丁点的礼貌亦是大有裨益的。
Mr Bush needs to remind his top people that, especially in a superpower, a little politeness goes a long way.
来自上海的公司高官们提供的事实也是个佐证，差距可能缩小得更快。
Anecdotal reports, like the one from the VP in Shanghai, suggest that the gap may be narrowing even faster.
相反，埃及高官们虽然都爱财如命，但是却更爱慕虚荣，这正是埃及的问题之所在。
On the contrary, vanity more than venality was the problem at the top in Egypt.
中年的保守党男士感觉高官爵位的梦想瞬间蒸发，就像深夜苏格兰里令人慰藉的一个（或两个）玻璃杯中的烟雾霎间飘散一般。
At a stroke, whole generations of middle-aged Tory men can feel dreams of high office evaporating like the fumes from a consoling tumbler (or two) of late-night Scotch.
他说，宴会当晚，奥巴马和其他受特情局保护的高官都有专人保护。
And, he added, Obama and others under Secret Service protection had their usual security details with them at the dinner.
“这是一项绝望的人制定出的措施”，一位南部高官承认说。
“It’s a rather desperate measure, ” admits a well-placed southerner.
“这是一项绝望的人制定出的措施”，一位南部高官承认说。
"It's a rather desperate measure," admits a well-placed southerner.
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