muckraker是什么意思

2024-01-25 08:44:17

muckraker

美英

n. 探听丑闻的人

近义词：mudslinger，scandalmonger，gossipmonger，troublemaker，slanderer，stirrer，

Noun

one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage)

That journalist is nothing but a professional muckraker. 记者是职业性的爱找丑闻的人。
Hes a muckraker. 他是丑闻的揭发者.
Having discovered his vocation as a cultural muckraker, he eventually secured an audience, a market and even the offer (which was refused) of Westminster Abbey as a final resting place. 在认识到把揭文化黑幕作为自己的职业之后，他最终获得了一个听众、一个市场、甚至是把威斯敏斯特教堂作为他最后的安息之所的提议（被他拒绝了）。
“He laid out battle plans and political strategies, in advance, with remarkable clarity,” the muckraker Jack Anderson, who was a cub reporter in China, said of Zhou in his memoirs. “他总是提前设计好十分清晰的作战计划和政治策略。”