委员会对事不对人。

　　The committee's role is "fact-finding" and not targeting individuals to be held responsible.

　　拒绝民主党的要求，不会召开特别聆讯调查事件rejected calls from the Democratic Party for a special hearing into the matter

　　抵不过舆论压力/敌不过舆论压力bowed to strong criticism/yielded to public pressure

　　指派一个项目小组调查此案named a special task force to investigate the case

　　玷污了政府公仆廉洁诚实的形象tarnished the clean and honest image of government workers

　　玷污立法会声誉damaged Legco's reputation

　　研究如何防止类似事件在未来重演look into how to prevent such problems being repeated in the future

　　要求实时进行内部调查has called for an immediate internal investigation

　　要还死者一个公道should give justice to the victims

　　重建委员会的声誉rebuilding the commission's reputation

　　面临更多抨击face more flak

　　消除各方揣测dispel various speculation

　　回避某间题sidestep a question about something

　　国际笑话an international joke

　　责难某人censure somebody

　　连串公屋丑闻a spate of public housing scandals

　　造成政治危机would cause a political crisis

　　酗酒、烂赌、好色passionate about drinking， gambling and women

　　揭示香港食物监管制度的一大漏洞exposed a major flaw in food surveillance programme of Hong Kong

　　揭发自一九四九年以来最大宗金融丑闻have uncovered the biggest financial scandal since 1949

　　焦点人物central figure

　　会从梁锦松事件中吸取教训would learn from Mr Leung's mistake

　　违反内部指引violated internal guidelines

　　违章breach the regulations

　　对考评局处理事件的手法不满was dissatisfied with the authority's handling of the situation

　　对政府错失大表震怒expressed anger at the blunder

　　影响了政府官员的良好声誉discredited the fine reputation of government officials？？？

　　调查政府面对非典型肺炎的处理手法investigating the government's handling of the Sars outbreak

　　遭某人强烈反驳drew a scathing attack from somebody

　　尽量减少丑闻的杀伤力minimise the damage incurred by the scandal

　　还校长一个清白clear the name of the vice-chancellor

　　罗太说学生是董建华政府的最大得益者。

　　Students， said Mrs Law， were the biggest beneficiaries of the Tung administration.

　　（专门讽刺政治人物的）政治漫画家caricaturist

　　台湾第一夫人Taiwan's First Lady

　　政治讽刺对象subject of political satire

　　董建华的肖像effigies of Mr Tung

　　讽刺她的外貌pokes fun at her appearance

　　讽刺政治的作品political satire

　　讽刺叶太处理法轮功的手法ridicules Mrs Ip's policies on Falun Gong

　　讽刺话barbed comments

　　人身攻击personal attack

　　上天要毁灭一个政党，必会使其疯狂。现在完全看不到国亲的理智何在？

　　If the Heaven wants to destroy a political party， it will make it mad first. I can't see any rationale behind the KMT-PFP alliance.

　　他们一直唱衰香港和祖国。

　　They have been bad-mouthing Hong Kong and our country.

　　他们否定一国两制，却很少提出建设性意见。

　　But these people deny the principle of one country， two systems and they rarely give constructive criticism.

　　叫鸡议员prostitute-hiring councillors

　　叫鸡党prostitute-hiring party

　　有人指称陈水扁是在上演「苦肉计」，总统府办公室公开陈水扁的伤口照片来响应。

　　To head off speculation that Mr Chen staged the shooting， his office released photographs of his wounds.

　　自编自导自演枪击案/苦肉计staged an assassination attempt on himself

　　你已唱衰香港六年。

　　You have bad-mouthed Hong Kong for six years already.

　　我绝对不同意他们是爱国的。

　　I definitely don't agree they are patriots.

　　把民主派人士卷标为不爱国discredit democrats as unpatriotic

　　把李柱铭比喻为吴三桂，吴三桂被视为中国史上的最大叛徒compared the veteran campaigner to Wu Sangui， a historic character considered the biggest traitor in Chinese lore

　　攻击某人denounce somebody

　　究竟反对二十三条立法的人算不算爱国whether opponents of Article 23 could be considered patriotic

　　抹黑smear

　　指（民主党）逢中必反labelled the party as "against everything China does"

　　指三名资深民主党立法会议员不爱国，因为他们反对二十三条called three veteran Democrat legislators unpatriotic for actions such as opposing Article 23 of the Basic Law

　　要求陈水扁总统公开枪击事件真相called on Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian to come clean on the assassination attempt

　　要求刘梦雄立即撤回指控demanded an immediate retraction of th allegations made by Lew Mon-hung

　　被诽谤者the victim of libel

　　无理据的抨击groundless attacks

　　须要提出多些证据来支持他们的指控needed to present more evidence to back up their accusations

　　损害名誉vilify （vt）； They were vilified by the press as 'international terrorists'.

　　诽谤defamation/diatribe （n）/slander （n）/（vt）； launch a diatribe against sb/sue sb for slander/slander sb

　　诽谤文libel （n）/（vt）； sue the newspaper for libel/sb had been libelled in an article

　　诽谤的defamatory （a）； the article was highly defamatory

　　担心的人可能正是心中有鬼？

　　Do they have worries because they have things to fear？/Do they have worries because they have devils in their hearts？

　　历史人物a historic character

　　谩骂、诽谤diatribe