However well they are policed, major protests reinforce the impression of indifferent elites, repression of debate, overreaction to dissent, injustice and unaccountable power.

不管他们管理得有多好，重大抗议活动都会加深人们对冷漠的精英阶层、对辩论的压制、对异见的过度反应、不公正和不负责任的权力的印象。

Some scholars argue that the concentration of water within the urban core of these sites provided a centralized source of political authority for Maya elites based largely on controlled water access.

一些学者认为，集中在这些地点的城市核心区的水资源为玛雅精英提供了一个集中的政治权力来源，而这些权力主要是基于对水资源的控制。

They would have local people, sort of higher class and local elites bid for the right to collect local taxes, and so the Romans would take the highest bid.

他们安排当地人，算是上层阶级和本地精英，竞拍当地收税权，这样罗马总是能获得最高竞价。

Elites have fed this mass perception.

掌权者助长了这一普遍看法。

Change and continuity when new elites win power.

当新的精英赢得权利时的变动和一贯性。

Elites all across Europe have lost their authority.

整个欧洲大陆的精英们已经丧失了权威；

But since then the non-elites have improved dramatically.

但从那以后，非精英学校得到了很大的改善。

Local elites have also played a vital role in spreading land deals.

在土地交易的扩张中，地方精英也起到了重要的作用。

But when it came to "Selfish Elites", Apple is the brand of choice.

与此相应，“自私的精英阶层”中，Apple是首选的电子产品品牌。

Arab elites came to view him as a loose cannon and a dangerous crank.

阿拉伯的精英逐渐把他看成一个大炮简子和危险的怪人。

Because in any argument of any kind, elites always quote Tocqueville.

因为不管在什么内容的辩论中，精英们总是会引用托克维尔的话。

But it is spreading rapidly among the middle classes and the elites.

但是，它是在中产阶级和精英阶层当中迅速传播的。

We need to place the blame where it belongs, to chasten our policy elites.

我们需要将责任归咎于责任应该属于的地方，惩罚我们的政策精英们。

The result is that numerous colleges have narrowed the gap with the elites.

其结果就是越来越多的大学缩短了与精英大学的差距。

"We can do better," he says. "I'm worried we don't encourage our elites enough."

“我们能做得更好，”他说，“我担心我们对精英的激励还不够。”

They are the pride of their parents, elites of the nation and models of the time.

他们是父母的骄傲、民族的精英、时代的楷模。

However, while changing elites can be costly, the failure to do so can be disastrous.

然而，尽管统治精英的更替代价不菲，但更替失败的话结果将是灾难性的。

There was, and is, much ideological overlap between the two parties, or at least their elites.

两党的思维方式曾经存在、现在依然存在不少重叠的部分，或者至少他们的精英有很多类似的想法。

The Gulf's ruling elites generally stayed in power and were reluctant to see the British leave.

当地占支配地位的精英一般都安于手中权力，不愿意看到英国的远去。

Future historians will marvel at the austerity madness that gripped policy elites in the spring of 2010.

未来的历史学家会吃惊于2010年春天被吓破胆的政策精英者做出的疯狂的紧缩计划。

Nixon made a virtue of his squareness by siding with America’s “silent majority” against the elites.

尼克松站在“沉默的大多数”（即普通美国民众）一边抗衡精英分子，把自己迫不得已的事包装成出于自己的正直品质。

They exist to break down the barriers of access that keep social elites at a remove from ordinary people.

侵扰性新闻作为的存在是为了打通普通民众和社会精英之间的屏障。

That's because elites by their very nature are divorced from the real life concerns of ordinary people.

这是因为，出于天性，精英们与普通民众实际生活中的存在问题相脱离。

Nixon understood in his marrow how middle-class Americans felt about the country's self-satisfied elites.

尼克松深谙美国中产阶级如何看待国内自我满足的上层阶级。