The ministry is indeed a fief , a holdover from the era when the state controlled all .
铁道部实际上是计划经济国家控制一切的时代遗留下来的产物。
Reptiles might also experience rem , and some scientists argue that our mammalian dreaming might be a holdover from our reptilian brains .
爬行动物可能也会经历这个阶段,而且也有一些科学家坚持认为人类的睡眠还是从爬行动物那里继承过来的。
The traditional explanation for the summer holiday is that it is an agricultural holdover : farms needed children to help with planting and harvesting .
作为放暑假的传统理由,人们认为这是一种农耕时代的遗风:当时的农场需要孩子们帮助种植和收割。
But most of america 's overlap is a useless holdover from the days when commercial and investment banks , thrifts , government-sponsored enterprises and commodity dealers did different things .
The message claims that the obama administration is under the influence of the republican white house it replaced , pointing out that the president kept robert gates as defense secretary -- a holdover from the bush administration .