the most important persons in a governing body

entrepreneurs often work hard at landing a meeting with a potential client「s top brass just to blow it on the question and answer period, he says.

创业者在和潜在客户主要人员进行交流时往往很重视提问和回答的环节。

he」s the top brass in our company, with the power to hire or fire anybody in the whole outfit.

他可是我们公司里的重要人物，有权在整个公司里雇用人，也有权解雇职工。

early this year intel「s top brass started talking about upgrading leadership in china.

今年早些时候，英特尔高层开始讨论升级中国区的管理层。

nationalist feeling, spiced with paranoia about traitors and spies, took hold at a time when the top brass was forced to improve military performance through reform.

有关叛徒和间谍的妄想癥激化了民族主义情绪，这种情绪在高级军官被迫通过改革来提升军事表现的时候生根。

the firm」s top brass are keen to lead public debate, too.

这家公司的高层也热衷于领导公共辩论。

against this backdrop, the triumphalism of some of the top brass on the allied side during the campaign now sounds callous.

如此看来，诺曼底登陆中同盟军高级军官的必胜信念听起来似乎冷酷无情。

they are the top brass of the steel industry.

他们是钢铁工业界的巨头。

it laid out a detailed engineering schedule and made the case to microsoft「s top brass that courier could be a revolutionary device that would define a new product category.

他们制定了一个细致的工程计划，并向微软总部提交报告称，courier将是一款革命性的产品，它将定义一个新的产品类型。

soldiers and officers drew up their wills, while the top brass were trying to choose the most suitable 「d-day」 to deploy their troops, according to the archives.

根据解密档案显示，当时官兵已经士气高涨，然而军队高层依然在选择最合适的「d-day」以派遣军队。

mr whitehorn is one of the top brass in sir richard branson」s virgin group;

怀特霍恩在理查德·布兰森爵士的研究小组中身居要职。

top brass at lehman brothers and american international group (aig) suffered massive losses when share prices tumbled.

随着雷曼兄弟和aig集团的股价暴跌，这两家公司高管们的薪水也损失不小。

yet it took five years before the dreyfusards secured a second military trial, at which the captain was again found guilty, this time after the top brass forged evidence against him.

然而，德雷福斯一案历经五年才获得第二次军事审判机会，这次，在高级军官出示的伪证下，德雷福斯上尉再次被判有罪。

lester：well, you「ve got my support on this. i」ll see what i can do to get the top brass to agree.

莱司特：嗯，你已经得到我的支持了。我会看看有什么方法可以让高层主管同意。

so was the willingness of barclays bank's top brass to pay the high-flyers at its capital-markets fledgling more than their seniors in the commercial bank.

尽管麾下的资本市场部门羽翼未丰，巴克利银行的高层却愿意给予其中雄心勃勃的员工们高过其下属商业银行中高管的薪金，这对公司也大有裨益。（大概是这个意思，你再组织组织）

mr murtaugh left gm china after the top brass in detroit moved his immediate boss, the head of asia-pacific, to shanghai, too close for comfort.

在被底特律的高层免去亚太区主管的职位后，murtaugh立刻离开了通用中国来到了上海，很快就得到了缓和（很快就有了更好的机会）。

a few of those on wall street, including maverick hedge fund manager john paulson and the top brass at goldman sachs, spotted what was going on and ruthlessly gambled on a crash.

华尔街的一些人士（包括特立独行的对沖基金经理约翰·保尔森和高盛的高官们）发现了正在发生的问题，却无情地与公众对赌。

an outside 「expert」 brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands and a clean conscience.

外界雇用的「专家」，受聘裁减雇员总数，留下手脚干凈、良心未泯的高层管理人员。

an employer usually does not object to being called boss. but most workers would not call their employers big cheeses, top brass or brass hats to their faces.

雇主通常并不反对被称为「boss」，但大部分员工不会当面将雇主称为「bigcheeses」，「top brass」或「brasshats」。