Bankers said the dramatic goings-on at the top of HSBC were totally out of character with the group's reputation for smooth, quiet, consensus-based management.

银行家们表示，汇丰高层的戏剧性举动与其一向被认为的平稳、平静和意见一致的管理风格完全不符。

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Yet for 20 years, this woman has hung on at the top of her business, while most CEOs - male and female - last four or five years before they are spat out or squashed.

然而就是这个女人，20年来一直稳居她所在行业的最高位置，而大多数CEO——无论男女——干上四五年后就会被迫出局或遭遇惨败。

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Someone had played a trick on her, stretched a piece of string at the top of those steps.

有人对她搞恶作剧，在那些台阶的顶部拉了一根绳子。

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They have an opening at the bottom for the fire and a place on top to put a pot.

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Now, if you look on your handout, there's a reconstruction of this tent-like sanctuary at the top as well as a schematization of its contents below.

你们可以看一下我发的材料，最上面有对这个像帐篷一样的圣所的重组,下面有对这个圣所里面内容的图示。

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I get all the voters right on top of me at position 1 and she gets everyone else, is that right?

我得到选择立场1的10%选票,对手得到剩余90%的选票,对吗

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Because so many investors climbed on at the top, far more was lost on the downside than was made on the upside.

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Brendan, a junior at the University of Connecticut, sat perched on the double bars of the handrail on the stairs at the top of the park.

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The duo are level on points at the top of the Premier League going into the last match of the campaign on Sunday while they will play in the Champions League final in Moscow on 21 May.

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