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Originally scheduled to air in May of 1994 on the Discovery Channel,"Conspiracy of Silence" was yanked at the last minute due to formidable pressure applied by top politicians.

最初预定于1994年在探索频道播出的节目，"保持缄默的协定"在最后一分钟被迅速撤消，由于运用于被最高政客的强大的压力下。

Messages were delivered in no uncertain terms from key politicians involved in the Cable TV battle, that if the Conspiracy of Silence were shown on the Discovery Channel as planned, then the industry would probably lose the debate.

来自卷入有线电视战中的主要政客信息将被用不确定的方式传达，如果保持缄默的协定在探索频道按计划播出，那么产业将可能失去争论。

He is a politician who is asleep to the needs of the constituents.

他是一个对选民的需要漠不关心的政客。

Last year the Home Office began consulting on a new anti-corruption law. And in June it set up a team of police investigators to focus on bribery abroad by British businesses and money-laundering by corrupt foreign politicians.

去年，内政部开始就新的反腐败法律进行立法磋商，并于今年6月，设立了一个警务调查小组，工作重点放在英国企业海外行贿和外国腐败政客的洗钱活动上。

Even a contortionist could not make Mr Brown's electioneering position on spending fit the budget arithmetic of his own chancellor, the heavily-eyebrowed Alistair Darling.

即使是长袖善舞的政客也不能使布朗在竞选中关于政府支出的态度符合其财政部长，那个经常持否定态度的阿利斯特尔·达灵的预算要求。

Even a contortionist could not make Mr Brown's electioneering position on spending fit the budget arithmetic of his own chancellor, the heavily-eyebrowed Alistair Darling. In April he set out a strategy, of sorts, for plugging the gaping hole in the public finances.

即使是长袖善舞的政客也不能使布朗在竞选中关于政府支出的态度符合其财政部长，那个经常持否定态度的阿利斯特尔·达灵的预算要求。4月的时候他推出了一套差强人意的策略来填补公共财政的赤字。

Left to their own devices, politicians built a rent-seeking①, corporatist ②state.

只能靠自己想办法，政客们建立起了一个寻租的、社团主义的国家。

Many Europeans have grown up in corporatist systems, dominated by trade unions, employers' groups and politicians.

许多欧洲人成长都离不开社团体制，比如工会、雇主协会及政客们。

He's a crafty politician. You never know how he will react.

他是位老奸巨猾的政客，你永远都不知道他会怎么样反应。

In 70 BC, an ambitious minor politician and extremely wealthy man, Marcus Licineus Crassus, wanted to rule Rome.

公元前70年，马库斯李锡尼克拉苏，一个小小的但是极之富有的政客，想要统治

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。