have/hold all the aces
占尽天时地利人和、占绝对优势
- ‘When I was an adolescent,’ says a thirty-one-year-old man, ‘I thought girls held all the aces.’
“当我还是个毛头小伙儿时，”一个31岁的男人说，“我觉得完全是女孩子说了算。” - In a situation like this, it’s the big companies who hold all the aces.
在这种形势下，占尽优势的是那些大公司。 - In the battle between the construction company and environmentalists, the construction company seem to hold all the aces.
在建筑公司与环保人士的博弈中，建筑公司似乎在掌控着局面。
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