Power is largely concentrated in the hands of a small elite.

权力主要集中在少数精英人物的手里。

A tiny, educated elite profited from the misery of their two million fellow countrymen.

一个小小的受过教育的精英团体从他们两百万同胞的穷困中获了利。

Except for elite schools, admission standards are low.

除了精英学校，其他学校的入学标准都很低。

It is not just readers who are challenging the media elite.

挑战媒体精英的不仅仅是读者。

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years.

近年来，人们对精英高中数学竞赛的兴趣有所增加。

Her plump figure indicates that she is among North Korea's privileged elite.

她丰满的身材表明她是朝鲜享有特权的精英之一。

If elite schools have relaxed standards, the practice is almost surely widespread.

如果精英学校放宽标准，这种做法几乎可以肯定是普遍存在的。

So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school.

温斯顿·丘吉尔也是如此，他差点从英国一所精英学校哈罗公学退学。

Most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small number of people.

大多数欧洲和亚洲的大学为一小部分人提供精英服务。

Many are made to be put in the tombs of the elite in order to serve the tomb owners in the afterlife.

许多是为了被置于精英的坟墓里而作，以便在来世为坟墓主人服务。

The whole world has moved away from elite education in universities to meet the needs of mass education.

整个世界已经远离精英教育的大学，以满足大众教育的需要。

There are also dozens of summer camps—many attached to universities—that aim to prepare elite math students.

还有数十个暑期夏令营，其中许多隶属于大学，旨在培养数学精英学生。

Norway's adoption of a nationwide corporate gender quota has led to the underestimation of elite women's role.

挪威国内企业采用性别配额，导致了对精英女性能力的低估。

In order to ensure that elite women have more such opportunities, they have proposed imposing government quotas.

为了确保精英女性有更多这样的机会，他们提议实行政府配额。

This appeal to the middle class convinced the elite that photographs would foster a desire for realism instead of idealism.

这种对中产阶级的吸引力使精英们相信，摄影会培养人们对现实主义而非理想主义的渴望。

Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack an upper-second class degree, from an elite university.

许多顶级公司甚至不会考虑那些精英大学里缺乏二级以上学位的人的申请。

They were likely hired by one of the city's elite, perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii-like interior to remind him of home.

他们很可能是被这个城市的其中一个精英雇佣的，也许是一位罗马官员想要庞培式的内部装饰，好让他怀念家乡。

More irrigation works would have to be built to feed the growing population, and this resulted in more power and wealth for the elite.

国家必须修建更多的灌溉工程来养活不断增长的人口，这为精英阶层带来了更多的权力和财富。

"Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite," these were stores "anyone could enter, regardless of class or background".

“并非是为知识精英服务的私人商店，”这些店是“任何人都可以进入的，无论阶层或背景如何”。

Some critics blame affirmative action—students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at elite schools.

一些批评人士将此归咎于平权行动——那些来自问题高中的学生，以较低的考试分数和成绩被录取，往往在精英学校里很吃力。

At the same time, perhaps inevitably, the humanities—while still popular in elite colleges and universities—have experienced a significant decline.

与此同时，或许不可避免的是，人文学科——尽管在精英大学里仍然很受欢迎——已经经历了显著的下降。

It was these conditions that allowed an elite to emerge, probably as an organizing class, and to sustain itself through the control of surplus crops.

正是在这样的条件下，诞生了可能充当管理阶层的精英阶层，通过控制余粮维持自身。

Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.

在接下来的五年里，该组织帮助学生进入其他精英夏季数学课程、高水平的高中，并最终进入大学。

The popular, old-fashioned Frost and the elite, modern Frost—these roles point to a division in the audiences for poetry that emerges clearly in this period.

这个大受欢迎、旧式的弗罗斯特和那个精英的、现代的弗罗斯特——这些角色指出了诗歌在这一时期在观众中明显出现的分歧。

Long-distance trade in obsidian probably gave the elite residents of Teotihuacán access to a wide variety of exotic good, as well as a relatively prosperous life.

黑曜石的长途贸易可能给特奥蒂瓦坎的精英居民提供了各种各样的异国商品，以及相对富裕的生活。

They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.

他们试图通过密切监督和有组织的活动来发展自己的技能，而且教孩子们质疑权威人物并出入精英机构。

The growing power of the elite, who controlled the economy, would give them the means to physically coerce people to move to Teotihuacán and serve as additions to the labor force.

控制着经济的精英阶层力量不断增强，这将使他们能够强迫人们搬到特奥蒂瓦坎，作为劳动力的补充。

In order to understand ancient Egyptian art, it is vital to know as much as possible of the elite Egyptians' view of the world and the functions and contexts of the art produced for them.

为了理解古埃及艺术，尽可能多地了解埃及精英的世界观以及为他们所创造的艺术的功能和背景是至关重要的。

Although vastly popular during its time, much nineteenth-century women's fiction in the United States went unread by the twentieth-century educated elite, who were taught to ignore it as didactic.

19世纪的美国女性小说虽然在当时广受欢迎，但20世纪受过教育的精英们却没有读过，他们被教导忽视这本书，认为这是说教。

With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far.

在这封信中，阿德霍尔德将西温莎-普兰斯伯勒地区学区纳入了一场全国性的讨论之中，其内容是关于精英学校对成就的高度关注，以及这种关注是否过度了。