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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 .

中国的领导阶层下决心要镇压任何分裂西藏的想法，所以将国内最后一个无铁路的地区纳入全国的铁路有很大的政治重要性。

S & p said the error wasn 't triggered by ' any ratings surveillance activity , ' quashing talk that it was set to downgrade france .

标普说，出现这样的失误并不是因为正在对评级进行任何评估活动，进而平息了有关标普打算下调法国评级的议论。