0 the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society -- （社会）上层集团；掌权人物；出类拔萃的人，精英
1 belonging to the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society -- （社会）上层集团的；掌权人物的；精英的
the political elite
the intellectual elite
His research ought to have secured him a place in academia's elite.
Brazil's political and business elite seem prepared to accept the election results.
It consisted of aristocrats with recent titles, who rose from the very ranks of the municipal elite.
Instead, the story is of group elites and long-term trends, with a different focus and different tempo.
This is difficult to explain unless a villa elite were directly involved in the towns.
