cronies

Businessmen may be worthy of government grants. But Americans are more likely to call them "cronies" than "entrepreneurs" .

商人也许值得接受政府资助，但美国人更可能会把他们称为“亲信”而不是“企业家”。

Even his old cronies who had ridden with him to power ganged up with Shanghai merchants to drive China's dictator from his capital.

甚至当年拥他上台的亲信、故旧，也同上海的商人串通一气，要把这个独裁者赶出南京。

He would see the madness in investors' eyes. . . and palsied hands of his central banker cronies.

他可以看到投资者中的狂热及中央银行家朋友们颤抖的双手。

The merchants got rich but few warmed to the Assads or their Alawite cronies, who have behaved like mafiosi, demanding a slice of every pie.

像黑手党一样，阿萨德家族和其阿拉维亲信要求分得每一杯羹，因此商人们变富了却很少有人对他们产生好感。

Salem assigned each of his brothers a prince to cultivate, while he worked on accumulating powerful cronies in the United States.

塞伦让每个兄弟“照顾”一位王子，自己则在美国结交权贵，积累人脉。

I fear he will track down Banker, male, 49 pretty quickly, given that you are one of the only surviving non-cronies on his top team.

我担心，他会很快查出“银行家、男、49岁”到底是谁，因为你是他高级团队里少数幸存的非亲信之一。

Finally, if western intelligence agencies possess evidence of any corruption by Mr Putin or his cronies they should publish it.

最后，如果西方情报机构掌握普京或其亲信腐败的蛛丝马迹，应将之公诸于世。

Since the unrest began, we have imposed strong financial sanctions on Asad and dozens of his cronies.

自反抗活动开始以来，我们对阿萨德及其数十名亲信实施了严厉的金融制裁。

The round-table deal was a canny fix, in which weak-willed opposition figures allowed the cronies of the old regime to maintain their power.

圆桌谈判实则一个狡黠的安排——意志消退的反对党人物仍然允许旧政权的党羽拥有各自的权力。

The fashion now is for "smart" sanctions, which try to isolate and hurt the regime and its cronies, not the innocent.

现在流行的是“机智”的制裁，旨在孤立和打击被制裁政权及其盟友，不针对无辜平民。

There is no plausible expectation that Assad will lead a process of reform, one that inevitably forces him and his cronies out of business.

但阿萨德几无理由会推行改革，因为这难免会导致他和他的跟班交出实权。

He predicted victory for the former ruling party, a gang of cronies known as the Pakistan Muslim League (Q), or PML(Q).

他曾预测前任执政党能赢得胜利，该党称作巴基斯坦穆斯林联盟，或简称PML-Q，是自己的一群亲信。

"But as time went on, the cronies around him started taking advantage of the system, " he says.

但是时间一久，他周围的亲信就开始利用政府为自己谋利。

I just thought one of his cronies wanted me tohave the journal and thought I'd be interested in the book.

我当时认为他的一个亲信想要我拥有这日记并认为我会对这书感兴趣。

"I'm not optimistic about the future, " Mr. Wu said. "The Maoists want to go back to central planning and the cronies want to get richer. "

他说：“我对未来并不乐观，毛主义者想要重返中央计划经济而裙带资本主义想要致富。”

With unemployment widespread, wealth became concentrated more tightly in the hands of a small class of regime members and their cronies.

随着失业不断蔓延，社会财富越来越集中于小部分统治阶级成员以及他们亲属的手中。

Throughout JK Rowling's books and film adaptations, Neville was a subject of ridicule by school villain Draco Malfoy and his cronies.

纵观J.K.罗琳的书和改编电影，纳威一直都是校园恶霸德拉克·马尔福和他的密友们的愚弄对象。

A daily (or even more frequent) Twitter 'tweet' from you keeps your cronies and well-wishers abreast of your latest job-search happenings.

每天（甚至更频繁地）更新你的碎碎念可以让你的亲信或其他热心人士了解你最新的求职情况。

The only problem of Mr Putin's system is that stepping aside even for a short time could be lethal for him and his cronies .

普京统治下的唯一的问题是，他即使短时间地离开一会，他与他的亲信就会遭受致命的危险。

He flew from Camp Columbia, the city's main military base, to exile in the Dominican Republic with an entourage of relatives and cronies.

他乘坐专机从该市的主要军事基地哥伦比亚营地，携带着随同的家眷与亲信逃离到多米尼加共和国。