A gaggle of even more senior ones were asked to retire-and immediately won cushy, lucrative jobs at quasi-public agencies and private foundations.

而一群更资深的官员则被要求退休——且立即获得准公共机构和私人基金会的高薪闲职。

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Studies of British civil servants find that senior ones enjoy better health than their immediate subordinates, who in turn do better than those further down the ladder.

对英国公务员的调查发现，级别较高的公务员比他们的直接下属健康状况要好，这些下属又比更下一级的人员健康状况好。

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Meanwhile, Ken Clarke’s liberal noises as justice secretary—he has questioned the utility of short prison sentences—have provoked anger among fellow Tories, including very senior ones.

同时，司法大臣肯•克拉克怀疑短期有期徒刑是否有用，他宣扬自由的聒噪已经引起其托利党同伴的愤怒，高级官员对此也不满。

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Senior ones know that a return to civilian politics would probably cost them their jobs.

ECONOMIST: The army exiles the country's leading politicians

Studies of British civil servants find that senior ones enjoy better health than their immediate subordinates, who in turn do better than those further down the ladder.

ECONOMIST: Social inequality

Perhaps it is because they feel stymied on economic issues that senior Tories are arguing more about social ones.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot