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The Future Strategy Office had come to represent the concentration of elite power that South Koreans are so fed up with, says Lee Jong-tae (no relation to Mr Lee) of SisaIN, a South Korean magazine.
一家韩国杂志SisaIN的Lee Jong-tae（和李先生没有关系）称,未来战略室曾代表着韩国人厌烦的精英力量的中心。

Elite 精英，杰出人物：
“In addition to notions of social equality there was much emphasis on the role of elites and of heroes within them”(Times Literary Supplement)
“除了社会平等概念之外还强调其中精英们和英雄们所起的作用”(时代文学增刊)
feed up with 对...厌倦
I get fed up with other people's greed.
我对别人的贪婪厌烦透了。

In the past, the office was said to have been vital in ensuring the family's control. It managed relations with the government to that end.
在过去，未来战略室据说在保证李氏家族控制权上一直是至关重要的。它为此经营与政府的关系。

Vital 至关重要
A vital component of any democracy is a free labor movement”(Bayard Rustin)
自由工人运动是任何民主所不可缺少的组成部分”(贝亚德•拉斯廷)
To that end 为了达到目的
To that end, the study will do what cannot be done with people — kill some of the monkeys to examine their brains and pancreases.
为了达到这个目标，研究中需要做一些无法用人来进行的实验——杀掉其中一些猴子来考察它们的大脑和胰脏器官。

Yet even its abolition serves the Lee dynasty. It is a pacifying move to try to “save” the young chieftain, says Lee Jong-tae. Mr Lee can now seek bail, and a court must rule within three months.
但是即使它的废除仍然对李氏家族有利。 Lee Jong-tae说到，试图“挽救”这位年轻的首领是令人欣慰的行动。 李在镕可以现在寻求保释，法院需在三个月内裁决。

Abolition 废除
Their discussion centred around the abolition of slavery.
他们的讨论是以废除奴隶制度为中心而进行的。
Pacify 平息
Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels.
政府军发现难以平定叛乱分子。
Chieftain 酋长
In truth, he has been acting as a corrupt chieftain.
事实上，他的行事作风如同一位腐败的首领。

Still, after his arrest, says Chang Sea-jin of the National University of Singapore, Mr Lee will have “neither the legitimacy nor the size of equity stake” to maintain the emperor-style management of his father (inheritance tax will slightly reduce the family‘s stake). Perhaps！
尽管如此，新加坡国立大学的教授张信真称，李在镕被捕后，为保持他父亲帝国式的管理方式，他不会拥有合法性也不会拥有股权（遗产税将略微减少该家族的股份）。或许如此

equity stake 股权
The ADB is also prepared to take a small equity stake in private sector ventures.
亚洲开发银行也准备在私人企业中收取不量的股本金。
inheritance tax 遗产税
Inheritance tax should be paid when the wealth of a dead person is inherited by someone.
遗产税应该在继承死者的财富的时候缴等等。

The day-to-day running of Samsung will be little affected by the dissolution of the family's most loyal body, because of the control still wielded by the Lee dynasty.
三星日常的经营不会受到该家族最忠实的人离开的影响，因为控制权还是掌握在李氏家族

day-to-day 日常的
I am a vegetarian and use a lot of lentils in my day-to-day cooking.
我是个素食者，日常烹调中使用许多扁豆。
Dissolution 解散
He stayed on until the dissolution of the firm in 2000.
他一直呆到2000年公司解散。
Wield 掌握 (权力)
He remains chairman, but wields little power at the company.
他还是主席，但在公司内没有什么权力。

Most people expect the key functions of the strategy office to be transferred to other parts of the group, most likely to three companies—Samsung C&T, Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Electronics—in preparation for a long-anticipated transition to a more transparent holding-company structure.
许多人认为，战略部的关键职能可能由其他部门来实现，最有可能的三个部门是三星物产，三星生命保险和三星电子，这三个部门已经为转变为控股公司做了长久的准备。

transparent
易懂的; 显而易见的
The company has to make its accounts and operations as transparent as possible.
该公司不得不尽力使它的帐目和运作一目了然。
holding-company
控股公司

Shares in Samsung Electronics are trading at near record highs owing to strong results and optimism about the coming launch of the latest model of its main smartphone, the Galaxy S8.
三星电子的股份以接近历史新高的速度交易，这归功于对其主要的智能机盖乐士S8最新模型将要展出的强劲业绩和乐观态度。
owing to 由于；因为

He was out of work owing to a physical injury.
他因为受伤而失业了。
Galaxy
1. 星系
2. 一群有才气的、迷人的或显赫的人或物
a galaxy of theatrical performers.
众星云集

The chief surprise this week was the mass resignation of the strategy office's nine executives, including an old guard handpicked by the elder Mr Lee.
本周主要令人意想不到是战略室九位高管的大量辞职，包括李健熙精心挑选的一位保守派

Handpicked
亲自挑选的; 精选的
The president relied on his handpicked security and intelligence forces in the Interior Ministry to maintain his rule.
他依仗自己在内政部精心挑选的安全与情报势力来维护自己的统治。

Mr Chang suspects that this “corporate cleansing” will work in the younger Mr Lee's favour. Some of the executives had become so powerful that they might have overshadowed him.
张教授猜测这次“公司清理”在李在镕的支持下会成功。其中一些高管权利太大可能会压倒他。

Overshadow
1. 使黯然失色
Hester is overshadowed by her younger and more attractive sister.
她那更年轻而且更有魅力的妹妹使赫斯特黯然失色。
2. 给…蒙上阴影
Fears for the president's safety could overshadow his peace-making mission.
对总统安全的担心会给他的和平促进任务蒙上阴影。

The unit's closure might both save the heir and make his return easier.
这个部门的关闭可能既挽救了这个继承者，也使他的归来更容易。

Closure
1. 倒闭; 关闭
...the closure of the steel mill.
…这家钢厂的关闭。
2. (道路、边界等的) 封闭
Overnight storms left many streets underwater and forced the closure of road tunnels in the city.
一夜的暴风雨使城市里的许多街道都淹没在水中，公路隧道被迫封闭。
3. 认栽
I asked Trump if the reunion was meant to achieve closure. 我问迈可特朗普再度联合是否意味着认栽。