high-flier

基本解释

Sally has always been a high-flier.
莎莉一直是个有野心的人。
But rather than raising their game , workmates put in a worse performance when in the presence of a high-flier , experts say.
但专家认为，在有高手在场时，其他员工不仅无法表现得更好，反而会表现更差。
Nokia recently dumped its Finnish boss and replaced him with a dynamic outsider, Stephen Elop, formerly a high-flier at Microsoft.
诺基亚最近抛弃了其芬兰总裁而用前微软公司佼佼者斯富有活力的蒂芬·艾洛普替换。

CharityBuzz is the brainchild of S. Coppy Holzman, a founder of Webvan, a high-flier during the tech boom a decade ago.
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His biography so far suggests an efficient bureaucrat of middling talent—excellence in German and judo aside—rather than a visionary or natural high-flier.
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Perhaps his lack of Hong Kong-high-flier flash comes from growing up in an elite family that nevertheless still expected its children to work hard and stay modest.
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