As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.

随着经济的复苏和好转，对有理想的头儿们，机会是很多的。

Our colloquialisms reveal a great deal : once you are old you are " fading fast " , " over the hill " , " out to pasture" , " down the drain" , " finished " , " out of date" an " old crock" , " fogy" , " geeze" , " biddy" .

你一旦老了，便" 很快枯萎" ，" 走下坡路" ，" 靠边站" ，" 徒劳 无功" ，" 完蛋了" ，" 过时了" ，是个" 老废物" ，" 老古板" ，" 怪老头儿" 或" 长舌婆。

Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon were all big and stupid, but as Dudley was the biggest and stupidest of the lot, he was the leader.

尔、丹尼、莫肯、戈登都是傻大个，而且很蠢，而达力更是他们中间块头最大、最蠢的，就成了他们的头儿。

Even now, having been tortured and imprisoned by Voldemort, the idea of the Dark Wizard in possession of this wand seemed to enthrall him as much as it repulsed him.

现在，即使在被伏地魔拷问和关押后，这老头儿对于黑巫师拥有老魔杖的想法，乎仍是既反感又着迷。

Stan O'Neal, Merrill's head, had no idea that his firm had accumulated fatal levels of subprime exposure because he had pushed aside the people who might have warned him.

美林证券的头儿斯坦奥尼尔（Stan O'Neal）把本可能规劝警告他的人都打入冷宫，因此根本没有意识到公司已经累积了致命数额的次级贷。

We...we got the engineering boss, and we got the project manager boss.

我们有工程头儿，有目经理头儿。

" Don't ask the leader for the password! "

“别再问头儿密码了！”

An old man stood on the doorstep. “Tis my old donkey, sir, ” he explained.

一个老头儿站在门口。“先生，我的老驴子，”老头儿说道。

If you don't mind, may I ask you how much money you have?

如果你不介意，我能不能问问，你手头儿有多少钱？

Thus passed many years, and he was now an old man, and sat with his old wife under the blooming tree.

许多年过去了，他现在成了一个老头儿，跟他年老的妻子坐在一棵开满了花的树下。

" But you have not slept yet, old man, " he said aloud.

" 不过你还没睡觉呢，老头儿，" 他说出声来。

" Very well, " answered the little man; " I will get it for you."

“好吧，”矮小的老头儿回答说，“我应该替你办到。”

The old man, it was Abanazar, of course, saw the lamp in Fawzia's hands, and knew it at once, because of the picture in the water of his magic stones.

老头儿（当然是阿巴那扎尔）一看到法齐娅手中的灯，马上就认出它就是那盏神灯，因为他把魔扔进水里后在水中看到过这盏灯。

Maybe. But that's not kept the new boss from breathing down my neck.

许吧。但是即使是这样，我们的新头儿还总是盯着我。

Loop that end of the rope through this and knot it.

把绳子的这一头儿从这里穿过然后打结。

Billee, the good-natured, could lead for all they cared, so long as he kept order.

哪怕是好脾气的比利当了头儿, 他俩无所谓, 只要他能维持好秩序就行。

I'm the head of Europe. - Well, you know, for the hotel-- Not the continent.

我是欧洲的头儿啦。-酒店头儿啦，不是整个欧洲。

" A bird! " cried another. " Look at the size of him! "

“一只鸟！”另一个说。“瞧他的个头儿！”

Wh-why is she in charge? And what's--what's a phone bank?

凭什么该她当头儿啊 什么是电话银行啊？

He was right. An old man in a nightcap opened the window and looked out.

果然，有人打开了窗子朝外看，这是个老头儿，戴一顶睡帽。