英语释义

• a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974

片语

Watergate Seandal水门事件

watergate scandal水门事件；水门丑闻

Watergate BayWatergate Bay at high tide

Watergate Hotel水门旅馆

Comet watergate科胡特克彗星

Watergate Gallery水门画廊

Watergate Building水门大厦

Watergate conspiracy水门事件

Watergate Dase水管门第阀阅事务

Watergate Case水门事件

英汉例句

• Richard Nixon, then the vice-president, was among Stone「s first targets as 「a young man who symbolises a slick kind of Arrow-collared fascism」 and remained in his sights until the Watergate scandal.

  理查德·尼克松，后来的副总统，就是斯通第一批作为「一个象征着一种圆滑剑领法西斯主义的年轻人」的靶子，他一直在斯通的视野内，直到水门事件。

• 「People want you to think that newspapering is」 everyone is working on the next Watergate 「,」 says Clay Shirky, a media guru at new York University.

  「人们希望你将办报看作“人人都可能成为第二个水门事件主角。」”纽约大学一个报业大亨ClayShirky说道。

• He was so close to the administration that he recused himself from the unanimous vote, in 1974, to force the President to give up the Watergate tapes.

  他和这届政府的关系是如此紧密，以至于在1974年那次迫使总统交出水门录音带的一致决议中主动申请回避。

• As a young lawyer she served as a member of the impeachment inquiry of President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

  年轻时作为理查德·尼克松总统水门丑闻后的弹劾调查的律师成员。

• In an echo of the Watergate hearings 35 years ago, Mr. Greenspan was asked when he knew there was a housing bubble and when he told the public about it.

  听证会的气氛使人回想起35年前的水门事件国会听证。格林斯潘被问到他何时知道存在着住房泡沫以及他又是何时告知公众这一点的。

• When Kissinger said that, or didn」t, politicians were about to stumble. In 1973 economies seized up, and Watergate revealed the shocking truth that politicians could lie.

  无论基辛格有没有这样说过，政治人物马上都要栽跟头了。1973年，经济陷入停滞，而水门事件则暴露了一个令人震惊的事实——政治人物会说谎。

• And for decades now, the granddaddy of all rationalizations has been the 「character」 issue that was born of Vietnam and Watergate and became ubiquitous after Gary Hart.

  几十年来，所有与「品德」问题有关「想当然」，其源头都出自越南和水门事件的报道，并且在加里·哈特之后无处不在。

• The CIA agent in charge was Howard Hunt, later one of the Watergate burglars.

  掌管此事的中情局特工是霍华德·亨特，后来水门事件中的窃贼之一。

• There were questions about his role in the Watergate scandal, but that was long ago, and Mr Bennett, 76, has spent three terms in the Senate without notable sleaze or incompetence.

  在水门事件中他的角色备受怀疑，不过那已是陈年旧事，76岁的贝内特已担任了三届参议员，并没有出现丑闻和不称职的情况。

• A group of historians and legal scholars had sued the government, seeking release of the testimony Nixon gave in June 1975, 10 months after he resigned from office over the Watergate investigation.

  早在1975年6月，就有历史学家和法律学者要求政府公开秘密证词，而当时是尼克松接受水门事件调查辞职后的第十个月。

• As with the Watergate conspiracy a few years later, it was the cover-up that caused the outrage, allied to Kennedy「s apparent readiness to put his political career ahead of a young woman」s life.

  正如几年后的水门事件阴谋一样，激起公众愤怒的是掩饰，肯尼迪显然準备将其政治生涯置于年轻女士生命之前。

• Particularly if you have got an incumbent President and we no longer stick to the public financing, which was a result of the Watergate scandal.

  特别是如果你有一个现任总统，同时我们也不再坚持使用公共资金作为竞选经费，那样的话就会发生水门事件那样的丑闻。

• He is reviled for his Watergate lies.

  他就是因水门事件而被痛斥的。

• For example, in the Watergate case, the House Judiciary Committee voted against impeaching President Nixon for alleged income tax evasion because it had nothing to do with his performance in office.

  例如，在水门事件中，众议院司法委员会反对根据假定的逃税指控弹劾尼克松，因为这和他的政绩无关。

• At home he is about as popular as Richard Nixon at the depths of the Watergate scandal (see chart 1); abroad he is seen as a war-mongering buffoon.

  在国内，他的民意支持率变化与水门事件发生时理查德·尼克松的呈相同的趋势(见表1)；在国际上，他却是战争的始作俑者。

• 「It is one of the top four or five events that have happened on television,」 Kahle said. 「You can think of putting a man on the moon, the Watergate hearings, the Kennedy assassination.」

  卡利说：「9?11恐怖袭击事件在电视报道大事排行榜上能排到前四、五位，和人类登月、水门事件、肯尼迪遇刺这些事情差不多。」

• Nixon's approval rating tumbled to 23 percent in January 1974, seven months before his resignation over the botched Watergate break-in.

  尼克松的支持率于1974年1月跌至23%，七个月后，他便因水门事件而辞职。