Police in Trinidad and Tobago have been ordered to stop releasing murder statistics. The government said reports of violence encourage people to commit more crimes. The country's independent police commission described the statement as amazing. It said the government had no power to instruct police on operational matters and the order will be ignored.

特立尼达和多巴哥警方接到停止公布谋杀统计数据的命令。政府称报道暴力行为可以鼓励人们犯下更多罪行，该国独立警署称该声明很令人吃惊，称政府无权指挥警察的行动，将无视这项命令。

第三页：词汇解析

hatchet job

英汉解释

n. 恶毒攻击；诽谤

同义词

n.

calumniation，calumny，defamation，obloquy

参考例句

1. But health-care experts quickly and correctly dismissed it as a

hatchet job

.

不过，医疗专家迅速而正确地将该报告指为恶毒诽谤。

2. The opposition leader tried to do a

hatchet job

on the Chancellor's budget plans by claiming that they were inflationary.

那位反对党的领袖声称，财政大臣的预算方案要就是通货膨胀，以此对他进行攻击。

3. The ax just keeps falling at GM and the

hatchet job

now includes several more key, even iconic, models from the once-dominant but now withering Detroit automaker.