我还清清楚楚地记得他第一次把我当作心腹的光景。

I vividly remember the first time he took me into his confidence.

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据说，他信与高级军官们冲突不断，他试图通过在高级职位上安插自己的心腹来削弱他们的力量。

By all accounts, he has clashed repeatedly with senior army officers, riling them by trying to install his own loyalists in senior posts.

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总之，他责难这家公司的相对自治性并且向这家公司委派了很多心腹来加强他的权威。

Above all, he decried its relative autonomy and appointed a number of hostile bosses to impose his authority.

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It has personnel who are his buddies, those in favour, lots of eating, drinking, et cetera.

这个政府充斥了彼得的心腹和同党,吃吃喝喝,不务正业,诸如此类的事宜

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