The intellectual elite of a society.

无足轻重的知识分子。

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I wanna be China's intellectual elite! Do you have the same mind?

我想成为中国知识分子中的精英！你有相同的想法吗？

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MILTON FRIEDMAN: the intellectual elite, as it were, were on the side of Allende, not on the side of Pinochet.

米尔顿·弗里德曼(Milton Friedman)：知识分子的精英们站在了阿兰德(Allende)一边，而非皮诺切特一边。

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Pride in building the country and particularly the distinction of being part of the intellectual elite are more important than rewards or lifestyle.

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Somehow... the idea of the public plan became the sine qua non of meaningful reform for a very vocal portion of the Democratic intellectual elite.

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And they are tackling it without the benefit of an intellectual elite that has spent years considering different models of political and economic organization, as had early American or French revolutionary activists, or many Eastern European dissidents in the 1970s and '80s.

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