Worse still, it was upstaged and outwitted by a tiny group of opportunists, many of them Jews (not a people beloved by the KGB), who became known as the oligarchs.

更糟的是，它还被一小撮投机分子耍了，其中很多是犹太人(不是一个招克格勃待见的民族)，这些人成了后来的寡头。

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In countries such as the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, such offspring were seen as negative reminders of Western male colonizers and Eastern female war victims and opportunists.

在菲律宾、泰国、越南等国家，混血后裔勾起人痛苦的回忆，使人们想起当年的西方男性殖民者和东方女性战争受害者，以及投机分子。

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It was a familiar tragedy: opportunists rushed in to siphon fuel off a leaking oil pipeline and then a cigarette butt or match set off the explosion.

事发经过似曾相识：当时一根输油管道发生了渗漏，想捡便宜的人们冲过去捞取，而那个时候有人丢弃了烟头或者火柴从而引发了爆炸。

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Once the school-board battle had become a proxy for city-government power games, the opportunists jumped in.

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To an even greater degree than in Egypt, the debate was settled by the third US foreign policy camp - the opportunists.

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Unfortunately, available data suggest that the rebels championed as freedom fighters by the neoconservatives, the opportunists, the Europeans and the Western media alike are not exactly liberal democrats.

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