tammany

tammany

1. Tammany Hall

n. 坦慕尼厅, 坦慕尼协会会堂,坦慕尼协会总部

2. Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegraph, and all the rest, and winding up with Klondike, De Beers, Tammany Graft, and Shady Privileges in the Post-office Department.

从铁路系统公司、汽船公司、标准石油公司、越洋电缆公司、稀声电报公司,如此等等的其他公司,直到克朗代克金矿、德比尔斯钻石矿、塔马尼贪财公司和邮政部的暧昧特权公司。

3. He did, however, gain considerable knowledge by talking, for he discovered the influence of Tammany Hall and the value of standing in with the police.

他常常喝醉酒,酒后脾气很坏。这是生意场上赫斯渥最看不惯的事。

4. He owed his first job in politics to a Tammany Hall boss.

兰格尔的第一个政治职位归功于坦曼尼协会的老板。

5. There was a better hand across the table, held by a pugnacious Irish youth, who was a political hanger-on of the Tammany district in which they were located.

和他对桌的是一个好斗的爱尔兰青年。 此人是当地坦慕尼派控制的选区的一个政治食客,他手里有一副更好的牌。

6. During the first years of the Gilded Age, Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall provided more services to the poor than any city government before it, although for more money went into Tweed's own pocket.

在镀金时代的最初几年中,后台老板特威德的坦慕尼协会为贫困者提供的服务多于其他城市,尽管多得多的金钱落入他自己的腰包。

7. Tammany Society

坦慕尼协会(成立于1789年的纽约市一民主党实力派组织)

8. The boss of Tammany, with whom Mr Cleveland had at an earlier period in his career “locked horns”.

塔曼尼集团的 头 子克里夫兰先生在早期政治生活中,曾经跟他发生过冲突。

9. The boss of Tammany, with whom Mr Cleveland had at an earlier period in his career "locked horns".

塔曼尼集团的头子克里夫兰先生在早期政治生活中,曾经跟他发生过冲突。

10. She vowed to redouble her efforts and became an adept political operator, working with the famously corrupt Democrats in Tammany Hall as well as with Republicans.

她发誓要加倍努力,并最终成为了一名出色的政治人物,和腐败透顶的坦慕尼协会的民主党人以及共和党人共事。

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