There is a kind of investigative reporting - specifically, the kind that reveals poverty, inequality and social injustice - that aspires to awaken the civic conscience by means of shock therapy.

有一种调查报告——特别是那种揭露贫穷、不平等和社会不公正的——想要通过震撼疗法来唤醒公民的良心。

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Some of the schools that I visited during the course of traveling around the country just shock the conscience.

WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

But eventually, as danger asset prices rise higher and higher, lending standards may fall to levels that shock the conscience and start to enter the public folklore.

FORBES: Anatomy of an Economic Meltdown