Some people use their time and money badly and start at the top only to work down to the proper level of their poor abilities.

有些人滥用他们的时间和金钱，开始时地位很高，以后只好走下坡路，降到跟他们的低能相当的地步了。

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Naming the queue manager after the host name will help us model the network and locate assets as we drill down from top level logical names into the network.

当我们从最顶级逻辑名称往下深入到网络中时，按主机名称命名队列管理器将帮助我们模仿网络并定位资产。

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In a top-down fashion, you start with the top-level process activity that is grouped into three or more levels of process activities.

在自顶向下方法中，首先从顶级流程活动开始，此活动分组为三个或更多基本的流程活动。

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"We want to see the people who are identified as responsible - again,whatever the level, from the very top down - fully investigated and prosecuted."

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"We might have talked about it but I don't think we genuinely believed that seven or eight years down the line we would be at the top level of non-league, " Fallon told BBC Sport.

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The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).

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Each year the bottom teams from the top-tiered soccer leagues in England, Europe and Latin America are kicked down to the next level.

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