second-in-command

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Meanwhile, it emerged that a man thought to have been the Taliban’s second-in-command and flown by NATO to Kabul for secret negotiations was in fact an impostor.
同時，一名實為冒名頂替的人被認(rèn)為是塔利班的副指揮官，并乘坐NATO的飛機(jī)飛到喀布爾參加秘密談判。
Zichri, an Ephraimite champion, killed Maaseiah, son of the king, Azrikam the controller of the palace, and Elkanah the king's second-in-command.
厄弗辣因一個名叫齊革黎的勇士，殺了王子瑪阿色雅、王宮總管阿次黎岡和君王的輔相厄耳卡納。
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Plumm's not-so-cunning second-in-command claimed that three Yunkish slave-catchers were prowling through the camps, asking after a pair of escaped dwarfs.
普拉姆的不那么聰明的二把手聲稱有三個淵凱奴隸獵手在營地間逡巡尋找一對逃跑的侏儒。

Mr Rumsfeld's neo-conservative second-in-command, Paul Wolfowitz, has even less credibility than his boss does.
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"I have never seen it happen that a boss can work through a second-in-command, " says Xavier.
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By 1990 Lay was chairman of Houston-based Enron Corp. and Kinder, as president, was second-in-command.
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A second-in-command is someone who is next in rank to the leader of a group, and who has authority to give orders when the leader is not there.