Tommy is very bossy; he always wants to rule the roost.

汤米很专横，他总是想一切由他支配。

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"Grizzly bears rule the roost in this 4-million-acre behemoth," Chandler says.

钱德勒说：“灰熊这个庞然大物的栖息地需要占地四百万英亩。”

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As people begin to rely on social networking to guide them through the Web, keyword searches no longer rule the roost, they argue.

当人们开始依赖社交网络进行网上冲浪时，关键词搜索已经不再占据统治地位。

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But analysts wanted Alcatel to get into data-networking technology, where Lucent, Nortel and Cisco rule the roost.

FORBES: Laggard

Men used to rule the roost and making the adjustment to a slightly more equal world has hit some of them hard.

ECONOMIST: American men

Imposing rules of any sort is unpopular with county auditors, polling officers and the other people who rule the roost in the current system.

ECONOMIST: Washington state politics