There is already a feeling that this is a top-down change, we really need to get everyone on board.

已经有一种感觉，这是一个自上而下的变化，我们真的需要让每个人都参与进来。

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Japan is a top-down society.

日本是一个自上而下的社会。

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This is known as a top-down approach.

这称为 自顶向下方式。

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"The Tea Party movement is not a top-down operation.

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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A guy named Seth Klarman, who works at a fund in Boston called Baupost, said that what he does is worries top-down and invests bottom-up.

他叫塞斯·克拉曼,在波士顿的Baupost基金工作,他说他的工作就是自上而下地担心,自下而上地投资

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Even if you simply lowered the tax brackets themselves, it would be a top-down decision.

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The idea of making the EU a top-down, bureaucratically-administered-from-Brussels political entity is becoming a practical impossibility.

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The models take a top-down view of risks within a firm, looking at all markets simultaneously.

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