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单词 scandal
释义
scandal
(skændəl )
Word forms: scandals
1. countable noun B2
A scandal is a situation or event that is thought to be shocking and immoral and that everyone knows about.
...a financial scandal.
Synonyms: disgrace, crime, offence, sin  
2. uncountable noun B2
Scandal is talk about the shocking and immoral aspects of someone's behaviour or something that has happened.
He loved gossip and scandal.
Synonyms: gossip, goss [informal], talk, rumours  
3. singular noun [oft NOUN that] B2
If you say that something is a scandal, you are angry about it and think that the people responsible for it should be ashamed. [disapproval]
It is a scandal that a person can be stopped for no reason by the police.
Synonyms: outrage, shame, insult, disgrace  
Quotations:
It is public scandal that constitutes offence, and to sin in secret is not to sin at allMolièreLe Tartuffe
Collocations:
drugs scandal
After she was embroiled in a drugs scandal last year, leading retailers rushed to distance themselves from her.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This year's Tour de France has suffered its first drugs scandal.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Now he becomes the latest to be tainted by a drugs scandal.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
funding scandal
He picked fights over the funding scandal, crime and defence.
Times, Sunday Times
As a new funding scandal explodes, an old one perks up.
Times, Sunday Times
Every funding scandal, every politician found to be corrupt, adds more wind to these parties' sails.
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After the funding scandal, the government turned down a request for an additional $10 million to keep the company running.
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The reek of party funding scandals can be almost impossible to dispel.
Times, Sunday Times
public scandal
How do you survive a public scandal?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
PRESSURE grew last night for journalists to be protected when probing public scandals.
The Sun (2014)
But the break-up of his marriage would lead to public scandal.
The Times Literary Supplement (2020)
'A public scandal would be too humiliating.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
series of scandals
However, in recent years a series of scandals have damaged the popularity of the king and the monarchy.
Times, Sunday Times
That has to be better than a running series of scandals.
Times, Sunday Times
His protest follows a series of scandals that have hit both the government and opposition in the past year.
Times, Sunday Times
But the sport has been gravely embarrassed by a series of scandals in recent years.
Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, the report suggests that charities are struggling to recover from a series of scandals.
Times, Sunday Times
spy scandal
The spy scandal may end up more spoof than spook when the full story emerges, but it has serious implications for many global problems.
Times, Sunday Times
Footballers tend to attract trouble when out on the town socialising - even if minding their own business - but few can claim to have become embroiled in a spy scandal.
Times, Sunday Times
The spy scandal weakens the power of the security autocrats.
Times, Sunday Times
But last year he was forced to resign following a spy scandal.
The Sun
But this did not happen as the spy scandal surfaced in late 1994.
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trading scandal
Ostensibly, their exit stems from an insider trading scandal.
Times, Sunday Times
In that time it was involved in a mutual fund trading scandal and was fined $450 million.
Times, Sunday Times
The next year it was embarrassed by an insider trading scandal, after revelations that employees were sharing information about imminent stock offerings to favoured clients.
Times, Sunday Times
He left the next year amid an insider trading scandal.
Times, Sunday Times
She was in fact found guilty of four counts of obstruction of justice stemming from an insider trading scandal.
Times, Sunday Times
uncover a scandal
The scandal was uncovered by spot checks on 570 schools.
The Sun (2008)
It has been suggested he had uncovered a match-fixing scandal.
The Sun (2007)
MANY journalists only dream of uncovering a major political scandal.
The Sun (2016)
whiff of scandal
There is a real whiff of scandal in the air.
The Sun (2012)
There was about him a whiff of scandal.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A polished individual without a whiff of scandal about them.
The Sun (2016)
Translations:
Chinese: 丑闻
Japanese: スキャンダル
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