Until Darwin, evolution had been confined to the smallest corner of the intellectual elite.

在达尔文之前, 演化论被局限在知识界精英的角落里.

He published poetry and lived well in the city but was never fully accepted by its intellectual elite and prominent writers.

他还发表自己的诗集，生活得很不错。但没有真正被上流人士和主流作家接受过。

Through working the system and gaining favor among the intellectual elite, Thermaplugg eventually won the seat of advisor to the High Tinker.

通过修改法律，并取得科技精英们的好感，瑟玛普拉格最终坐上了大修补匠顾问的位置。

A research-type university should always aim at research as its fundamental function and be featured distinctively with intellectual elite education.

以研究为重心、永远培养精英、办学特色鲜明是研究型大学的核心特征。

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

一个由智力精英和世界银行家联手统治的、超越国度的主权，无疑比过去几个世纪里各个国家自制的制度更加可取。