搞政治

The world cannot get along unless people speak what is true; yet politicians have to be economical with the truth, or to make propaganda with language that misleads, or even to tell barefaced lies and justify them by the plea that this is best for the State.

除非人们讲出真相，否则，这个世界不可能变好；但政治人物却不得不吝于讲真话，或者不得不用误导性的语言搞宣传，甚至恬不知耻的撒谎，并以这对国家最为有利来为自己开脱。

But what I hope is that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship (=brinkmanship 边缘政策) that has bogged down this process, and Congress, in the past.

但是我希望我们不要搞可笑的政治作秀、搞边缘化，这种可耻的伎俩过去曾经使正常的投票进程受阻，甚至阻碍了国会的正常工作。

In his Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States , Morse wrote: Surely American Protestants, freemen, have discernment enough to discover beneath them the cloven foot of this subtle foreign heresy. They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and despotism, cloaking itself to avoid attack under the sacred name of religion.

在他的著作《外国阴谋美国的自由》（ Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States ）中，他写道：当然，美国的新教教徒，自由民有足够的洞察力去发觉那些外国异教徒在他们眼皮底下搞破坏，他们会明白天主教会无论过去还是现在，都一直是最邪恶的且已经体制化了的政治阴谋家和独裁者，只不过利用'宗教' 这一神圣的幌子来保护自己不受攻击。

It was stubbornness that made him disregard the warnings of the Young Marshal, Chang Hsueh-liang, that his Manchurian soldiers no longer wanted to fight the Communists, and resulted in his being kidnaped at Sian in 1936; it was ignorant obstinacy that made him countermand General Stilwell's order in 1942 for Chinese troops to evacuate Burma by way of India so that many were lost under the fastnesses of Tibet where they died; it was conceited mulishness that made him go into Manchuria in 1945 against the advice of General Wedemeyer; and finally, it was blind obstinacy and a crazy faith in his own rightness that made him disregard the warnings of his generals that the war could only be settled by political means until in the end politicians refused to head the government, generals refused to take command in the field and foreign powers refused to send him any more aid.

正是由于他的固执，使他不顾张学良少帅的一再警告，不相信张的东北军再也不愿打共产党了，结果酿成一九三六年的西安事变，他被扣押起来。他的愚顽不化使他在一九四二年撤销史迪威将军的命令，不让中国远征军取道印度撤出缅甸，致使许多士兵在西藏的穷乡僻壤迷途丧命。他的刚愎自用使他在一九四五年不顾魏德迈将军的劝告而进军满洲。最后，还是由于他盲目地固执己见和疯狂地自以为是，使他不顾手下将领们的一再告诫，不相信只能用政治手段来解决这场战争，结果搞得文官不愿主持政务，武将拒绝挂帅上阵，外国也拒绝继续提供援助。当然也可以把这称之为坚忍不拔。

We are pretty clear now about the thinking and political stand of different people and we can tell who supports the Party's line, has strong Party spirit and steers clear of factionalism.

我们现在对于人们的思想状况、政治状况比较清楚，能够看出来哪些人是拥护党的路线的，哪些人是不搞派性、讲党性的。

Now, as many poor countries grapple with similar political and economic choices, we must understand this dynamic.

现在许多落后国家正在进行相近的政治及经济选择斗争，我们必须搞清楚这一问题。

Build the main component of reform as " quaternity ", the first issue that Chinese democracy builds is clear what doing is democracy of Chinese characteristic socialism, how to develop democracy of Chinese characteristic socialism.

作为"四位一体"建设改革的重要组成部分，中国民主政治建设的首要新问题是搞清楚什么是中国特色社会主义民主政治，怎样发展中国特色社会主义民主政治。

Arbatov, director of Moscow's International Security Centre.

搞政治，就要摸清楚每个人的策略，」莫斯科国际安全中心主持人Aleksey Arbatov

Love begins with self-deceit and ends with other-deceit while politics goes the other way round.

谈恋爱是以自欺始，欺人终；搞政治是以欺人始，以自欺终。

Of course, Chen Tu-hsiu had one of his own too, but he went the Trotskyite way, worked for a split and carried on activities against the Party from the outside.

当然，陈独秀也有政治纲领，但他搞托派，搞分裂，在党外搞反党活动。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。