If you read the papers or watched cable news on the wrong day, you just might think it's "elite".

如果你在不巧的日子里阅读报纸或者收看有线电视新闻的话，你可能会想到“精英”这个词。

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But as the Confederations Cup proved, the nation can compete with the elite, occasionally beat them and shouldn't think of a run to the quarters in the World Cup as anything but expected.

但正如联合会杯所证明的，美国可以与世界一流球队较量，有时也能打败他们。我们不应该认为打入世界杯四分之一决赛是痴人说梦。

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Some want to have more chances to learn knowledge, while some just think that if they enter into an elite school, they must be successful in the future.

有些人希望能得到更多学习知识的机会，而有些人只是认为，如果他们进入名校，他们将来一定会成功的。

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I think the hardest part, it seems to me, of kind of, the elite universities in this country is getting in.

我想最困难的部分，在我看来，就是，要被这个国家精英的大学所录取。

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Because Turkey has been the most modern and most secular of all the Middle Eastern countries, I think the secular elite is giving much more importance to it than is necessary, maybe.

NPR: Dispatches from Turkey

Similarly, the same justices think that America should socially engineer a multicoloured elite so that America's leaders can be seen to be legitimate.

ECONOMIST: Affirmative action

Think about the ways that Facebook initially bonded with undergraduates at elite universities, or the way Pinterest connected with Midwestern moms who wanted a digital equivalent of scrapbooking.

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