Yet the task of quashing rumours is a sisyphean one .
但是镇压谣言的做法根本就是徒劳无益的。
The government might be tempted to reassert its authority by quashing all criticism .
政府可能会通过平息批评之声来重申其权威性。
Now the public is more sympathetic to the goal of quashing the radicals and the government has been jolted into a more serious effort .
现在，民众对镇压激进份子的目标更有同感，政府也采取了一些有力的举措。
Connecting the last rail-free region of china to the railway network has been a mission of enormous political importance to a leadership bent on quashing any notion of tibet 's separateness .
