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Meanwhile, it emerged that a man thought to have been the Taliban’s second-in-command and flown by NATO to Kabul for secret negotiations was in fact an impostor.
同时，一名实为冒名顶替的人被认为是塔利班的副指挥官，并乘坐NATO的飞机飞到喀布尔参加秘密谈判。
Zichri, an Ephraimite champion, killed Maaseiah, son of the king, Azrikam the controller of the palace, and Elkanah the king's second-in-command.
厄弗辣因一个名叫齐革黎的勇士，杀了王子玛阿色雅、王宫总管阿次黎冈和君王的辅相厄耳卡纳。
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Plumm's not-so-cunning second-in-command claimed that three Yunkish slave-catchers were prowling through the camps, asking after a pair of escaped dwarfs.
普拉姆的不那么聪明的二把手声称有三个渊凯奴隶猎手在营地间逡巡寻找一对逃跑的侏儒。

Mr Rumsfeld's neo-conservative second-in-command, Paul Wolfowitz, has even less credibility than his boss does.
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"I have never seen it happen that a boss can work through a second-in-command, " says Xavier.
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By 1990 Lay was chairman of Houston-based Enron Corp. and Kinder, as president, was second-in-command.
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A second-in-command is someone who is next in rank to the leader of a group, and who has authority to give orders when the leader is not there.