国防部长已经表明他不会袖手旁观,任由民主遭到破坏。
The Secretary of Defence has said that he would not stand by and let democracy be undermined.
如果人脉是可以被买到的,那民主社会的一个基本前提,即政府平等对待所有人,就被破坏了。
If connections can be bought, a basic premise of democratic society—that all are equal in treatment by government—is undermined.
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