处于前线

at the earliest───最早

at the hand of───在……的手上；由于......的作用；出自某人之手

beat the champions───击败冠军

in the short term───从短期来看；就眼前来说

at the hands of───由某人或通过某人的机构完成

at the latest───最迟；至迟

at the press───在媒体面前

at the ready───准备立即行动

at the same time───同时；然而

He started work at the sharp end of the business, as a salesman.───他从这一行最为棘手的工作做起，当了推销员。

Blues have started their PremierLeague campaign brightly, impressing at the sharp end of the table with 20goals in their opening nine league matches.───蓝军在联赛开始表现得非常抢眼，尤其令人印象深刻的是联赛开始以来的九场比赛他们就打进了20个进球。

The deal follows calls by Germany and France for Spain and other states at the sharp end of the euro zone debt crisis to set binding limits on their deficits to regain the trust of investors.───在德国和法国领头的合约中，西班牙和其他在欧元区债务危机边缘的国家正在通过限制他们的债务来重新获得投资者的信心。

Eastern Europe is at the sharp end of the new financial protectionism, a natural consequence of government involvement in banking.───东欧地区的新金融保护主义最为严重，这是政府插手银行业的自然结果。

On the heights above, British marines at the sharp end of NATO's war against the Taliban routinely come under fire from guns and rockets.───在高海拔地区，英国的海军陆战队是北约打击塔利班的先锋，受到来自枪炮与火箭弹的打击成了例行公事。

Bankers are under the greatest stress since financial services are at the sharp end of the downturn.───银行人士面临的压力最大，因为金融服务业正处于低迷的核心。

At the sharp end of public sector cost-cutting are the people who drive trains, collect rubbish and bury the dead.───公共部门削减成本下手最狠的地方，就是那些火车司机、清洁工和殡葬工人。

It did survive for ten weeks, and Harry has got his wish, been out there, at the sharp end.───这在这十周内还是有效的，哈利实现了他的愿望，到了那里，到了前线。

She is a fit and forthright 47-year-old who makes no secret of her love of working at the sharp end.───她是一位健康、直率的47岁女性，对自己在尖锐部队工作的热情毫不掩饰。

Vincent French is a real estate broker at the sharp end of a tough and exacting business.

Casualty doctors who're at the sharp end see the evidence that speeding is deadly.

The smallest coffee producers, mostly sub-Saharan countries, are at the sharp end of fluctuations in price.

He started work at the sharp end of the business, as a salesman.

The audience was made of around 100 leading businessmen, at the sharp end of the recession.

All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies.

A job like hers would be much too demanding for me, but she enjoys being at the sharp end.

A traffic warden is at the sharp end of the twentieth century guy.

They were at the sharp end of an operation conceived at the Oxford based company Unipart.