eminences

Both are truly grey eminences who have become accustomed to the exercise of influence.

两个人都是真正的幕后操纵者，他们已习惯于用其影响进行幕后操纵。

Since most stations in the Northeast were built on rocky eminences, enormous towers were not the rule.

在东北部，灯塔大都建在石质的高地上，因此塔身不需要太高。

some of these eminences dream they can arrange a "grand coalition" between the two parties.

这批元老中的一部分人梦想能将两党来一次“大合并”。

in long branch famous 19th-century gamblers endowed fire companies named after themselves, the way tamer eminences endowed colleges.

著名的19世纪赌徒在在朗布兰奇捐钱给以他们的名字命名的消防公司，正如讲究体面的名流捐钱给大学一样。

yet it remains to be seen whether he can control this group of eminences and communicate his policy with sufficient authority .

然而，他能否控制得住这群显赫人士，并有足够的威信传达他的政策，还尚待分晓。

wall street eminences are already treating the downgrade as a fait accompli.

在华尔街看来，国债评级下调已是既成事实。