The highest-ranking member of the Spanish aristocracy is the grandee .

西班牙贵族中爵位最高的成员乃是大公。

Pembroke Howard, lawyer and bachelor, aged about forty, was another old Virginian grandee with proved descent from the First Families

镇上还有一位知名绅士潘布洛克?霍华德是个当律师的独身汉，年纪大约四十上下，他也是年代久远的弗吉尼亚名门望族，确实是初到美洲的家族的后裔。

||1:In many ways the ferment within the Conservative Party is beneficial.||2:One new centre-left MP praises a fine “buffet” of different approaches; a backbench grandee talks of the value of “safety valves” on hot issues.||3:There is a refreshingly relaxed view towards rival philosophies, which was notably absent from the Labour Party when it was in power.||4:A combination of loyalty and flexibility has served the Conservative Party well in the past.

||1:从许多方面讲，保守党的内部纷争是有利的。||2:一位新中左议员赞其为提供不同点子的精致“自助餐”；一位后座政要称其在热点问题上起到了“安全阀”的重要作用。||3:一种对待不同信条的观点出现了，其轻松感令人耳目一新，这是工党执政时期明显缺乏的。||4:忠诚和灵活的结合使保守党在过去表现地可圈可点。

||1:For their employers the advantages are more immediate.||2:Prospective MPs increasingly enjoy high-flying jobs (often elsewhere in politics) before running for office, so may have less time to run their own campaigns.||3:Local party machines even in crucial marginal seats can be doddery, disorganised and dominated by the few truculent oddballs inclined to turn up to meetings.||4:Organisers can purportedly inject a dose of youthful dynamism into such outfits.||5:They report to national headquarters, so faithfully enact party strategies.||6:They must also hit monthly canvassing targets.||7:The Labour Party circulates rankings comparing organisers’ results.||8:Paddy Ashdown, a pugnacious grandee , polices the performance of their Lib Dem counterparts.

||1:对于他们的雇主来说，带来的益处是更直接的。||2:未来的国会议员在竞选公职前，越来越享受有挑战性的工作（通常是政治中的其他领域），因此，他们可能只有很少的时间运作自己的竞选活动。||3:当地正处于关键边缘时期的政党组织，就会被那些有意将会议声势放大的好斗的有心人士控制，变得只有毫无生气的散兵游勇。||4:而组织者可以给这些组织注入新鲜活力。||5:他们向全国总部报告，并切实的制定党的政策。||6:他们还必须达到每月的游说目标。||7:工党还发布对组织者进行的排名。||8:帕迪·艾什顿，一个好斗的名门望族人士，监督他们自由民主党对手的各方面表现。

||1: Mr Hatch is not the only Republican grandee to have shifted nimbly rightward. ||2: Dick Lugar, a Republican senator from Indiana who is equally venerable (he and Mr Hatch joined the Senate on the same day) and even more embattled, is breathing an unaccustomed amount of fire these days. ||3: Even Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican senator from Maine who recently declared herself so disgusted with the polarisation of Congress that she is not running for re-election this year, has been inching to the right since 2010.

||1:哈奇不是唯一一位向右急转弯的共和党大牌。||2:来自印第安纳的迪克-卢加最近也在鼓吹与其立场不符的保守政见。他江湖地位与哈奇平起平坐，同日就任，战况却更是四面楚歌。||3:就连缅因的温和派参议员奥林匹亚-斯诺也在2010年以后渐渐向右靠拢。她早前已经宣布由于受不了国会的两极分化而不会竞逐连任。

||1:As backroom special advisers do now, the author wrote speeches, drafted and redrafted policy papers, and negotiated electoral manifestos, all the while observing the foibles of his front-of-stage bosses.||2:In what is clearly the emotional heart of the book, he chronicles the turbulence surrounding the decline and fall of Old Labour, the fight against the hard left, the economic debacle of the mid-1970s and the disastrous election of 1979—all with a keen eye for strategy and personality.||3:There is delight in small details: the chill that settled on a lunch party when the young jobseeker had the temerity to hit the croquet ball of Roy Jenkins, a Labour grandee , into the flower bed, or Crosland’s views on the inanities of ambassadors’ wives.

||1:就像如今幕后特别顾问所从事的工作一样，作者当时也写演讲稿，对政策文件起草了又起草，协商选举宣言，同时观察着台上领袖的缺点。||2:运用自己对策略和人性的敏锐感，他在编年史内写下老工党衰退和倒台那段时期的骚乱，反左派的斗争，也记录下二十世纪七十年代中期的经济崩溃，1979年那场极糟的选举。||3:有些细节很明了：在午餐会上一名年轻的求职者鲁莽地把工党贵族Roy Jenkins的槌球打进了花圃里的事，亦或是Crosland关于大使夫人的浅薄方面的一些言论。

Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, sniped at the Environment Agency—which is led, not coincidentally, by Lord Smith, a Labour Party grandee .

社区大臣埃里克?皮克斯抨击由工党要员史密斯勋爵领导的环境局，绝非偶然。

But he should insist on a better job spec than “roving grandee ” .

但他应该坚持要求扩大自己的职责范围，而不满足于只扮演“巡视大公”的角色。

Jack Lang, a Socialist grandee and former culture minister, called such images a “lynching” .

法国一社会党高层即前文化部长杰克•朗（JackLang）称这样的画面就是“动用私刑”。

To be fair, not all grandee gloom involves personal disappointment.

公平地讲，并非所有政要的郁郁寡欢都涉及个人的失落情绪。

“I am incredibly surprised, ” confides one Tory grandee , “by the degree to which he takes this stuff seriously. ”

一位保守党的资深政要透露道，“他对这件事的重视程度着实令我震惊。”