To take sides at a later point would be to suggest that the earlier presumptive impartiality was a sham.

在以后的某一时刻偏袒某一方，就意味着先前假定的公正只是一种假象。

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Anything else is a sham, a pale imitation.

别的都是骗局，都是苍白的仿制品。

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The question is a mockery of a travesty of a sham.

这个问题是对模仿骗子行为的一种嘲弄。

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The trial has been widely condemned as a sham designed to keep her locked up through next year's controversial elections.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

Kohona told the Bangkok press club that despite harsh criticism of the sentencing from rights groups and the United States, the proceedings were not a sham.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The 32-year-old Saberi, who has worked for National Public Radio and the BBC,was jailed in January,allegedly because her press credentials had expired, before being convicted last month of "spying for the United States" in what many are calling a sham-trial.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

The AMP (area mail processing) studies are a sham and the process is entirely perfunctory.

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But a Tax Court judge in June concluded the whole deal was a sham when R.

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