Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed.

他们整治政治和搞垮党派组织权力的企图失败了。

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Get plenty of people to help tell others about the party, set up the party, and finally clean up after the party.

让很多人帮忙告诉其他人关于派对的事情，布置派对，最后在派对结束后打扫卫生。

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They come up with the idea for a company party, but never help clean up. They are on their way to another party.

他们会为公司的宴会出点子但是从来不会帮忙清理善后的，因为他赶着去下一个宴会呢。

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We would have had a bigger party and a bigger clean-up.

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"The best way to proceed if you want to take big money out of politics and clean up the lobbying scandal is to act on a cross-party basis, " they added.

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