"This company is really rotten to the core," says Kenichi Ohmae, a management consultant and former nuclear engineer.

一位管理咨询师前核工程师认为“这公司已经从核心开始败落了”。

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Most world-championship games, he claimed, were pre-arranged, proof that the “old chess” was dead, and rotten to the core.

他宣称，大多数世界冠军比赛都是事先安排好的，这证明了旧的国际象棋体制已经寿终正寝。

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This pear is rotten at the core.

这个梨子的果心腐烂了。

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He seemingly wants to remind people of past problems involving the police and convince them nothing has changed, that the LAPD is still rotten at the core.

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The coroner said it was known there were problems with the ANP and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Walker, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, had described them as "rotten to the core".

BBC: Afghan shooting: Soldiers were 'unlawfully killed'