That has endeared her to some of the middle-class urban voters who saw her predecessor as sitting at the top of a particularly rotten tree.

这样使她深受某些中产阶级城市选民的喜爱，这些选民认为她的前任直到现在还端坐在一棵已经腐烂树木的顶端。

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This is an overt version of the “Greenspan put”—the idea, named after Mr Bernanke’s predecessor, that a central bank stands as an insurer of the equity market.

伯克南的理论明显是一种“格林斯潘对策”的论调，这个对策以伯南克的前任格林斯潘先生的名字命名，意在阐述中央银行应作为股票市场的保险人而存在。

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They used another indirect tactic categorized as praise the predecessor, as in the meeting when a teacher fondly recalled a previous administration: "It was so calm, and you could teach."

在会谈中，他们会用另一种间接地方式表扬前辈。

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And Mr Ivester is not as charming a politician as his predecessor, Roberto Goizueta.

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