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influence peddler

势力范围,势力小人,势利小人,掮客

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who arranges to obtain favors, as government contracts, from high officials on behalf of others for a fee.

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Examples

  • Police have unions, for one, and those unions influence the elections of their civilian leadership.

  • What sets him apart from so many of his contemporaries was his rare immunity from the influence of prevailing ideas.

  • "He brought Ray Charles to the mix as an influence on rock & roll," E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt once raved.

  • These women interred the bodies of saints on their own properties and occasionally managed to influence papal politics.

  • Archrival India has money to throw around, and Iran and Russia are also exerting influence in the region.

  • After her marriage to Eugène Manet she came under the influence of his famous brother, Édouard.

  • So intelligent were her methods that she doubtless had great influence in making the memory of his art enduring.

  • It is probable that Mlle. Mayer came under the influence of Prud'hon as early as 1802, possibly before that time.

  • The voice is the most potent influence of expression, the winged messenger between soul and soul.

  • Under the soothing influence of beauty, however, the vicar forgot his woes.