well-connected a. 精心构思的, 有好亲戚的, 出身名门的
well-connected[ adj ]
connected by blood or close acquaintance with people of wealth or social position
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a well-connected Edinburgh family
- Friday's half-day investor presentation at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre - organised by yet another well-connected public relations firm, Balfour Harley Associates - is a start.
- Although he is well-connected _ Li is the adopted son of one of China's most beloved Communist officials, the late Premier Chou En-lai _ he is not believed to have a personal power base in the central government.
- Although some seasoned, well-connected Wall Streeters have already landed new high-paying positions at brokerage houses or banks eager to sweep up proven talent, many others are floundering.
- It is also well-connected with both the rich north and poor south in the community.
- Mladenov is considered a well-connected politician with good relations in Moscow, where he was educated.
- Of independent means and well-connected, he never had to worry much about his own position.
- Some well-connected employees, according to a union official, have been on paid vacation for two years.
- The persuasive or well-connected manage to jump the queue.
- The well-connected had dinner at dawn with Ms. Norman and singer Grace Jones at Le Palace.
- The departures fueled speculation that Wolf Block, a prestigious and politically well-connected law firm, is in turmoil.
- "There is no Arab solution," said a well-connected Saudi businessman, speaking on condition of anonymity. "The time isn't right and the Arabs are too divided.
- With a handful of exceptions, the roughly 9,000 cable franchises in the U.S. are monopolies, granted by local governments to a favored company, one usually partly owned by politically well-connected people.
- Because of Saudi Arabia's key role in the OPEC meeting, scheduled for Dec. 9, and a feeling among many oil analysts that Mr. Yamani still is a well-connected and important voice, statements he makes can easily affect the market, analysts said.
- The Bab-el-Oued neighborhood got water, and army trucks shifted cooking oil and semolina (the basic ingredient in "couscous," the national dish) from special depots for the well-connected to supermarket shelves for the masses.
- Without a strong central bank, a handful of well-connected speculators set the values in the unofficial exchange.
- But they found they couldn't gain entree to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait without going through the well-connected Mr. Abedi.
- The HUD inspector general said his audit found a pattern in which former department officials and other well-connected Republicans received a large share of project awards either as developers or as consultants to developers.
- If you were well-connected to the president or had friends in high administration posts, HUD funds were generally available.
- The executives said that AIG might be able to buy some good will and time with Bank Negara by buying the bulk of its stake in the politically well-connected Bank of Commerce.
- The Channel 2 news program "Rapport" quoted an unidentified, "well-connected" source close to the investigation as saying that Mrs. Lisbet Palme identified Christer Petterson as the killer.