1·The sultan was still nominally the chief of staff.
苏丹在名义上仍是军队领导人。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Sultan and the cat soon came up, and looked about and wondered that no one was there.
苏丹和猫很快走了过来，四处看看，奇怪的是没有人在那里。
3·Critics say he may become Turkey's next sultan.
批评者们说他可能成为土耳其的下一个苏丹。
4·Having grown used to this situation, people no longer thought it unusual that Turkey, which was trying hard to look European, should honor the pension arrangements of the overthrown sultan.
这种情形，你熟悉之后，再看到正在努力欧化的土耳其仍以被颠覆的苏丹王朝留下的福利制度为荣，也就习以为常了。
5·And his favourite passages in history are the bits where believers (often courageous Sufi mystics) spoke truth to power, not the instances when pliant greybeards did favours to the sultan.
另外，他所喜爱的历史事件是信徒们(往往是勇敢的苏菲派(Sufi)神秘主义者)向权力说真话的点点滴滴，而不是顺从的老人们偏向于苏丹的那些事例。