公司和控诉方都以为法庭会把负责原则当做前提。

Both companies and their accusers reckoned that the courts treated the principle of liability as a given.

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该原则表明，有时，负责的新闻工作者难免会伤害到某人，但是必须尽一切努力将此降到最低限度。

This principle recognizes that a responsible journalist sometimes unavoidably will harm someone but requires her to make every effort to minimize that damage.

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谁污染谁负责，这条原则很容易掌握，而且从政策实施层面来讲对污染等“坏事儿”而不是工厂、企业等“好事儿”收税非常有吸引力。

The principle—that polluters pay for the damage they cause—is easily grasped, and it is politically attractive to tax “bads” such as pollution instead of “goods” such as work and entrepreneurship.

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