influential officials

WANG Duo's death resulted from the conflict between the Central Government of Late Tang Dynasty and the Military Governors, between the influential officials at court and the scholars who failed in their imperial exams.

这一事件是唐王朝在面临崩溃之际，中央政府与藩镇之间，以及朝中权贵与广大寒门士子之间矛盾激化的结果。

Money that is used to bribe public politicians and other influential officials.

用来贿赂知名政客或其他有影响力的官员的资金.

Officials speak with justifiable pride about the hundreds of millions of people who have been lifted out of poverty. Influential pro-government academics, such as Shanghai's Zhang Weiwei, argue that the one-party system does not need a democratic mandate because it has "performance legitimacy," derived from improving the lot of ordinary people.

官员不无自豪地谈论着，中国数亿人已摆脱了贫困。如上海的张维为等富有影响力、支持政府的学者辩称，一党制不需要民主授权，因为这一制度了改善普通大众的命运，便从中获得了“绩效合法性”。

You must get in with the influential officials if you want to get rich.

你想发财就必须与权贵拉上关系.