top brass

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And senior Russians, especially the top brass, are growling in response.
俄羅斯高層，尤其是高級軍官，給以激烈反應(yīng)。
Nationalist feeling, spiced with paranoia about traitors and spies, took hold at a time when the top brass was forced to improve military performance through reform.
有關(guān)叛徒和間諜的妄想癥激化了民族主義情緒，這種情緒在高級軍官被迫通過改革來提陞軍事表現(xiàn)的時(shí)候生根。
Yet it took five years before the Dreyfusards secured a second military trial, at which the captain was again found guilty, this time after the top brass forged evidence against him.
然而，德雷福斯一案歷經(jīng)五年才獲得第二次軍事讅判機(jī)會，這次，在高級軍官出示的偽証下，德雷福斯上尉再次被判有罪。

He says that Pfizer's top brass "see the potential" of the new anti-cancer drugs.
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The top brass hopes the recession will encourage more to join and fewer to leave.
ECONOMIST: Britain's armed forces

the people with the highest positions of authority, especially in the armed forces

In the army or in other organizations, the top brass are the people in the highest positions.