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(shí)，一名實(shí)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(gè)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(gè)淵凱奴隸獵手在營地間逡巡尋找一對(duì)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.