A walking, baton-wielding will to power, she tyrannises her underlings, exploits her rights of patronage, cheats on her wife, drives fast and punches hard.

作为一个挥舞着指挥棒的、行走的权力欲望体，她像暴君般对待下属、利用赞助权谋利、对妻子出轨、飞快地开车、重拳打人。

These gentlemen formed, together with M. Maslon, a triumvirate which had tyrannised over the town for a number of years.

这些绅士与马斯隆先生组成了一个多年来一直统治该镇的三驾马车。

It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens; and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

一个人对他的银行余额实行专制比对他的同胞更好。虽然前者有时被谴责为只是后者的一种手段，但有时至少它是一种选择。