The boardroom has been an arena where power is contested ever since the first top-hatted directors sat around the first burled oak table.

指的好像是过去一直是这样的情况，自从第一拨带着高顶礼帽的董事们坐在第一张橡木桌子旁开始就是这样了。

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See-through Lucite chairs and an airy chandelier don't cramp the style of the heavy oak Stickley table.

透过璐彩特椅子和一个通风吊灯使沉重的橡木斯蒂克利桌子的样式不抽筋了。

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You can just imagine them sitting around an oak dinner table quietly a few minutes after the video and wondering, "What the hell are we going to do?"

你可以想象他们录的视频之后安静地坐在橡木餐桌边想“我们到底怎么办才好？”

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In Maastricht, in the provincial government building where the now-questioned treaty was signed, a small exhibit in a hallway shows an oak table used by one of the delegations at the summit.

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