hold sway

These are not the most conventionally respectable or productive activities, but why should we let convention hold sway?

从传统上来说，这些并非最体面或最有用的活动，但我们为何要让传统决定我们做什么呢？

Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Norman Li of Singapore Management University propose that the core social skills developed in our ancient past still hold sway over our happiness today.

伦敦经济学院的禅洲金泽和新加坡管理大学的诺曼·李认为，发源于古代社会的核心社交能力依然主导着我们今天的幸福。

Four years later, at the age of 60 – a baby in a system where 90-year-olds can hold political sway – he retired from politics entirely.

四年之后，他在60岁时完全退休，彻底离开了政界&在90岁老人仍可能发挥政治影响力的体系中，这个岁数堪称婴儿。

El Ni? o-Southern Oscillation events hold sway over nearly half the nations of the world, many of which have experienced surges in violence during El Ni? o years.

厄尔尼诺南方涛动事件控制着世界上近一半的国家，其中许多国家在发生厄尔尼诺现象的年份经历过动乱。

Some American statesmen hope to exert pressure on China so as to hold sway on the latter.

美国有些政治家希望对中国施加压力，以影响中国。

The powerful people of this world do not hold sway over the other world.

这个世界的权贵无法支配另一个世界的事。

The beliefs which now hold sway may one day be rejected.

现在占主导地位的信仰有朝一日可能会被摒弃.

Their war-mongering kings of the Mermnads'Dynasty hold sway with an iron fist over the lands between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

他们那个有着战争贩子行径的国王武装暴力统治着黑海和地中海之间的领地。

The big question is whether, given all these temptations, international law will hold sway in the Arctic over the coming years.

即使面临这些诱惑，未来几年另一个不容忽视的问题是国际法律界将在北极问题上摇摆不定。

A mayor of Leeds, for example, would hold sway over more people than the mayor of Washington, DC, does.

例如，利兹的市长就将比美国华盛顿特区的市长领导更多的人。

With the Chinese demand for iron ore proving to be such an important contributor to Rio's first-half results, Mr Albanese will be hoping that the favourable direction continues to hold sway.

鉴于中国铁矿石需求为力拓上半年业绩做出的重要贡献，艾博年将希望这种有利的方向继续主导事态的发展。

South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway...

阿斯克以南盛行的似乎是一种完全不同的方式。

Moral arguments no longer seem to hold sway.

道德方面的论点似乎不再占主导地位。

In the third stage, the form of stimuli, the frequency of knowledge points, the intimate emergence of the present utterances and the subject's cognition hold sway over knowledge selection.

在第三阶段，刺激形式、知识点频度、当前话语的近现性和主体认知水平对知识选择具有重要影响；

Ghosts met I do not hold sway.

鬼见了我都不当道。

But the vine answered,'Should I give up my wine, which cheers both gods and men, to hold sway over the trees?'

葡萄树回答说：'我岂肯止住使神和人喜乐的新酒，飘摇在众树之上呢？'

Where the dark arts still hold sway.

那儿仍然被黑魔法统治着。

Yet the theory continues to hold sway.

然而这种理论还是继续占据主导地位.

I hold no sway over any decisions by the boss.

hold sway over控制，影响我丝毫不能影响到老板的决策。

In the Kremlin's mindset, showing due respect for Russia would have meant allowing it to continue to hold sway over its near-abroad.

但在克里姆林宫的思维模式中，向俄罗斯表示出应有的尊敬，就意味着允许俄罗斯继续对其周边地区享有控制权。

South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway.

阿斯克以南盛行的似乎是一种完全不同的方式。

Rebel forces hold sway over much of the island.

该岛很大一部分控制在叛军手里。

South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway

阿斯克以南盛行的似乎是一种完全不同的方式。

This is only in effect upon an individual level and does not hold sway over planetary or social complexes.

这个作用的范围只是以个人为基准，并不会影响星球或社会复合体。

Environmental resource is not only an economic resource, but also bear the feature of integrity, regional cross-administrative and usage diversity. Its natural and ecological areas are often in dispute with the man-made administrative regions where administrative powers hold sway.

环境资源不仅仅是一种经济资源，而且具有生态系统的完整性、跨行政区域性和使用多元性特征，其自然生态功能区域往往与人为行政区域划分和行政权力设置无法重合。

But traditional mores hold sway around you, most important in the preference for sons over daughters.

但是传统的观念控制着你，使你偏爱男孩多于女孩。

Thus: In the realistic society, the expert in no field can hold sway over a region all one's life, the professor of more no field can know after sitting and gathering around.

所以说：在现实社会中，没有哪个领域的专家能够称雄一世，更没有哪个领域的教授能够坐拥后知。

Here bad people hold sway while good people suffer and justice is trodden down underfoot.

在这里坏人得志，好人受苦，正义受到摧残。

Above the ruins of Ar Noy, the Qohorik rule the river, and below the Sorrows the galleys of Volantis hold sway, but neither city claims the waters in between, so the pirates have made it their own.

在阿尔诺伊的废墟之上河段，科霍尔人统治河流，而伤心地之下则归瓦兰提斯的战舰统治，但没有城市声称对之间的河段负责，所以海盗们就在那里做了窝。

Above all, superstitions remain as outward expressions of anxieties that hold sway over humanity as it struggles down the corridor of life from birth to death, full of change and uncertainty.

最重要的是，人类在从生到死的生命长廊里为充满变数而又无法预知的一生进行挣扎的过程中，始终被紧张和焦虑困扰，而迷信的延承正是人类紧张和焦虑的外在表现。