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One retired bigwig believes the threat is hollow.
一位退休的要员认为该威胁是空洞的。
That he or the other bigwig Russians who have taken refuge in London would jeopardise their asylum for the sake of such risky Machiavellianism seems improbable.
他或其他曾在伦敦寻求庇护的俄罗斯大佬可能会因为如此不择手段的冒险行为危及自己的庇护权，这似乎不大可能发生。
Government ethics laws, he said, aim to prevent corporate titans from paying big money to influence politicians - but they don't ban the president from buying a bigwig a sandwich.
他说，政府的道德法律意在阻止企业巨头支付大笔资金影响政治人士，但道德法并没有明令禁止总统请大亨吃个三明治。

Today,the expression bigwig is used to make fun of a person who feels important.
People never tell someone he is a bigwig.
One such expression is,bigwig.

Hollywood bigwig David Geffen, meanwhile, is reported to have bid on the Los Angeles Times.
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If you refer to an important person as a bigwig, you are being somewhat disrespectful.