Mr. Smith is a bigwig around here.

史密斯先生是我们这儿的要人。

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It is said that Xiao Li's father is a bigwig.

据说小李的父亲是个大人物。

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I feel terrible, I am late a meeting with a bigwig client.

糟糕透了，我跟一个大客户的会面就要迟到了。

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People never tell someone he is a bigwig.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Today,the expression bigwig is used to make fun of a person who feels important.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

At the right Brussels dinners, speakers of a certain grandeur (an ex-commissioner, say, or a bigwig from the European Parliament) win table-thumping applause by denouncing perfidious Albion, before noting solemnly that the Lisbon treaty, for the first time, allows countries to get out.

ECONOMIST: The dangerous appeal of a semi-detached status for Britain

Miloslav Ransdorf, a Communist bigwig, is already threatening to hold out for a couple of seats in the cabinet.

ECONOMIST: Czech Republic

Is this the view of a future European bigwig or just the theorising of a gifted strategist who never quite makes it to the top?

ECONOMIST: Günter Verheugen, ever up-and-coming | The