ELITE

Power is largely concentrated in the hands of a small elite. 權力主要集中在少數精英人物的手裏。

A tiny, educated elite profited from the misery of their two million fellow countrymen. 一個小小的受過教育的精英團體從他們兩百萬同胞的窮困中獲了利。

Except for elite schools, admission standards are low. 除了精英學校，其他學校的入學標準都很低。

It is not just readers who are challenging the media elite. 挑戰媒體精英的不僅僅是讀者。

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years. 近年來，人們對精英高中數學競賽的興趣有所增加。

Her plump figure indicates that she is among North Korea's privileged elite. 她豐滿的身材表明她是朝鮮享有特權的精英之一。

If elite schools have relaxed standards, the practice is almost surely widespread. 如果精英學校放寬標準，這種做法幾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. 温斯頓·丘吉爾也是如此，他差點從英國一所精英學校哈羅公學退學。

Most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small number of people. 大多數歐洲和亞洲的大學為一小部分人提供精英服務。

Many are made to be put in the tombs of the elite in order to serve the tomb owners in the afterlife. 許多是為了被置於精英的墳墓裏而作，以便在來世為墳墓主人服務。

The whole world has moved away from elite education in universities to meet the needs of mass education. 整個世界已經遠離精英教育的大學，以滿足大眾教育的需要。

There are also dozens of summer camps—many attached to universities—that aim to prepare elite math students. 還有數十個暑期夏令營，其中許多隸屬於大學，旨在培養數學精英學生。

Norway's adoption of a nationwide corporate gender quota has led to the underestimation of elite women's role. 挪威國內企業採用性別配額，導致了對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. 為了確保精英女性有更多這樣的機會，他們提議實行政府配額。

This appeal to the middle class convinced the elite that photographs would foster a desire for realism instead of idealism. 這種對中產階級的吸引力使精英們相信，攝影會培養人們對現實主義而非理想主義的渴望。

Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack an upper-second class degree, from an elite university. 許多頂級公司甚至不會考慮那些精英大學裏缺乏二級以上學位的人的申請。

They were likely hired by one of the city's elite, perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii-like interior to remind him of home. 他們很可能是被這個城市的其中一個精英僱傭的，也許是一位羅馬官員想要龐培式的內部裝飾，好讓他懷念家鄉。

More irrigation works would have to be built to feed the growing population, and this resulted in more power and wealth for the elite. 國家必須修建更多的灌溉工程來養活不斷增長的人口，這為精英階層帶來了更多的權力和財富。

"Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite," these were stores "anyone could enter, regardless of class or background". “並非是為知識精英服務的私人商店，”這些店是“任何人都可以進入的，無論階層或背景如何”。

Some critics blame affirmative action—students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at elite schools. 一些批評人士將此歸咎於平權行動——那些來自問題高中的學生，以較低的考試分數和成績被錄取，往往在精英學校裏很吃力。

At the same time, perhaps inevitably, the humanities—while still popular in elite colleges and universities—have experienced a significant decline. 與此同時，或許不可避免的是，人文學科——儘管在精英大學裏仍然很受歡迎——已經經歷了顯著的下降。

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. 正是在這樣的條件下，誕生了可能充當管理階層的精英階層，通過控制餘糧維持自身。

Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college. 在接下來的五年裏，該組織幫助學生進入其他精英夏季數學課程、高水平的高中，並最終進入大學。

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. 這個大受歡迎、舊式的弗羅斯特和那個精英的、現代的弗羅斯特——這些角色指出了詩歌在這一時期在觀眾中明顯出現的分歧。

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. 黑曜石的長途貿易可能給特奧蒂瓦坎的精英居民提供了各種各樣的異國商品，以及相對富裕的生活。

They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions. 他們試圖通過密切監督和有組織的活動來發展自己的技能，而且教孩子們質疑權威人物並出入精英機構。

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. 控制着經濟的精英階層力量不斷增強，這將使他們能夠強迫人們搬到特奧蒂瓦坎，作為勞動力的補充。

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. 為了理解古埃及藝術，儘可能多地瞭解埃及精英的世界觀以及為他們所創造的藝術的功能和背景是至關重要的。

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世紀的美國女性小説雖然在當時廣受歡迎，但20世紀受過教育的精英們卻沒有讀過，他們被教導忽視這本書，認為這是説教。

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. 在這封信中，阿德霍爾德將西温莎-普蘭斯伯勒地區學區納入了一場全國性的討論之中，其內容是關於精英學校對成就的高度關注，以及這種關注是否過度了。 ^[1]