have influence over

基本解释

First, we asked, does the person have influence over lots of other people?
首先，要問的是，這位人物是否有極大的影響力？
The same people who market a school often sit on, or have influence over, admissions committees.
爲商學院做營銷的人常常是招生委員會成員，或對該委員會有影響力。
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But if you had to stereotype, girls more often use social power to have influence over their peers, and boys more often use physical intimidation to have power over their peers.
但如果按傳統的說法，女生更經常用社交的力量來打擊她們的同齡人；而男生更願意使用人身恐嚇。

But nonetheless, Peter the Great creates this huge empire that will have over the long run, an enormous influence in European affairs.
即使如此,彼得大帝還是一手創造了,這個龐大的帝國,長遠來看將對歐洲事務産生極大影響
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That would mean that lobbies representing different medical specialties, drug companies, device makers, hospitals, home health nurses and other providers would cease to have influence over their own payment rates as they do now.
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