bigwig

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One retired bigwig believes the threat is hollow.
一位退休的要員認(rèn)為該威脅是空洞的。
That he or the other bigwig Russians who have taken refuge in London would jeopardise their asylum for the sake of such risky Machiavellianism seems improbable.
他或其他曾在倫敦尋求庇護的俄羅斯大佬可能會因為如此不擇手段的冒險行為危及自己的庇護權(quán)，這似乎不大可能發(fā)生。
Government ethics laws, he said, aim to prevent corporate titans from paying big money to influence politicians - but they don't ban the president from buying a bigwig a sandwich.
他說，政府的道德法律意在阻止企業(yè)巨頭支付大筆資金影響政治人士，但道德法并沒有明令禁止總統(tǒng)請大亨吃個三明治。

Today,the expression bigwig is used to make fun of a person who feels important.
People never tell someone he is a bigwig.
One such expression is,bigwig.

Hollywood bigwig David Geffen, meanwhile, is reported to have bid on the Los Angeles Times.
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If you refer to an important person as a bigwig, you are being somewhat disrespectful.