Status was all, and no one was willing to set aside hard-won position for the common good.

地位才是最重要的，没人愿意为了全体利益而把自己辛辛苦苦挣到的地位抛到一边。

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And a guy named--a Republican named John Boehner won this position in quite a heated battle.

共和党一个叫约翰的家伙,在白热化的争斗中赢得了席位。

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"It's really theater of the absurd, " says Edward FitzGerald, a former FBI agent who won the position of Cuyahoga County executive after fed-up residents here disbanded the old county commission form of government under Mr. Dimora.

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The Thurn und Taxis family eventually won the lucrative position of postmasters-general for the Holy Roman Empire.

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We should have won from that position - you should always win from that kind of position and that is what hurts.

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