watergate

基本解釋

His involvement in the Watergate evaporated any hope Nixon had for a political career.
尼克松同水門(mén)丑聞的牽連使他從政的希望化為烏有。
The public mood has grown more cynical since then; Watergate showed that presidents can be villains.
從那以后，大眾就變得更加憤世嫉俗了。水門(mén)事件說(shuō)明總統(tǒng)中也有惡棍。
Particularly if you have got an incumbent president and we no longer stick to the public financing, which was a result of the Watergate scandal.
特別是如果你有一個(gè)現(xiàn)任總統(tǒng)，同時(shí)我們也不再堅(jiān)持使用公共資金作為競(jìng)選經(jīng)費(fèi)，那樣的話就會(huì)發(fā)生水門(mén)事件那樣的丑聞。

Five men had been arrested after breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office building.
They wrote a series of stories after a break-in at Democratic Party offices in the Watergate Office Building in nineteen seventy-two.
The newspaper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service in nineteen seventy-three for its Watergate reporting.

He served seven months in prison for obstruction of justice on charges related to Watergate.
NPR: Nixon Officials React to 'Deep Throat' News

Watergate is used to refer to the events that surrounded the break-in at the Watergate building in Washington, D.C., during the U.S. presidential election campaign of 1972, and the impeachment and resignation of President Richard Nixon as a result of his role in the incident.