Jessica: Starmer is getting a lot of heat over this Mandelson thing. Me: Are they calling him embat...
- ‘embattled’是媒体暗示当事人有罪的中性措辞
- 该词在口语中几乎不用，专用于新闻报道
- 政治人物被称‘embattled’往往预示舆论危机
Me: Are they calling him embattled yet?
Le Monde: Embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday, April 20, that he had been wrong to appoint Labour politician Peter Mandelson..." / X
Paul Graham on X: "Jessica: Starmer is getting a lot of heat over this Mandelson thing. Me: Are they calling him embattled yet? Le Monde: Embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday, April 20, that he had been wrong to appoint Labour politician Peter Mandelson..." / X
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Jessica: Starmer is getting a lot of heat over this Mandelson thing. Me: Are they calling him embattled yet? Le Monde: Embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday, April 20, that he had been wrong to appoint Labour politician Peter Mandelson...
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Paul Graham
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Mar 29, 2019
If a journalist describes you as "embattled," they're saying you're guilty as charged. The word basically doesn't exist in spoken English. Its only use, except among castle nerds, is as a (seemingly neutral and presumably also libel-proof) press code word. https://news.google.com/search?q=embat tled…
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