【英音模仿秀】窃听无孔不入,媒体下限何在
英语课
模仿文本: Here's a venerable and so far unresolved dilemma 1: a press which is fettered 2 by government regulation is no longer free to check and criticise 3 government; but a press which is free may abuse those freedoms in ways that the public - on whose behalf it claims to speak, and whose interests it claims to serve - may find deeply repellent and repugnant, as in the case of the current phone hacking 4 scandal.
译文: 如今存在着这样一个严肃而又未决的窘境:一个被政府管理所束缚的媒体是不可能去审视和批评政府的。但是,一个绝对自由的媒体可能会导致权力的滥用,他们代表他们所宣称的公众说话,为他们所宣扬的公众利益服务。这可能最终导致截然相反的矛盾后果,就如同最近发生的电话窃听丑闻。
译文: 如今存在着这样一个严肃而又未决的窘境:一个被政府管理所束缚的媒体是不可能去审视和批评政府的。但是,一个绝对自由的媒体可能会导致权力的滥用,他们代表他们所宣称的公众说话,为他们所宣扬的公众利益服务。这可能最终导致截然相反的矛盾后果,就如同最近发生的电话窃听丑闻。
1 dilemma
n.困境,进退两难的局面
- I am on the horns of a dilemma about the matter.这件事使我进退两难。
- He was thrown into a dilemma.他陷入困境。
2 fettered
v.给…上脚镣,束缚( fetter的过去式和过去分词 )
- We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it. 我们尊重传统,但不被传统所束缚。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence. 许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》