As the hacking trial concludes - finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge - the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands.
随着窃听案审判结束——认定《世界新闻》前编辑安迪·库尔森因密谋窃听电话而有罪，而他的前任蕾贝卡·布鲁克斯则被判定无罪——更广泛的问题，即诚信的缺失，依然存在。
Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.
安迪·库尔森应被判定无罪。
And if Peretti were in charge at the Times?
如果佩雷蒂负责《时代周刊》呢？
exempt from conviction on the charge of favoritism.
免于因偏袒罪而被定罪。
They could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have “done our bit” without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions – a kind of “moral licensing” that allays our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.
它们甚至可能适得其反，满足了我们‘已经尽了一份力’的心理需求，却从未推动我们采取更大胆、更有效的行动——这类似于一种‘道德授权’，减轻了我们的担忧，阻止我们做更多事或对掌权者提出更高要求。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。