水门事件的遗产

A Legacy of the Watergate Scandal

水门事件的发生虽使尼克松成为"被贬黜的前总统",但他并没有被击垮,反而取得了显赫的成就。水门事件发生后,总统及白宫幕僚的权力受到削弱,当时的民众对美国所谓的民主制度感到沮丧和失望,美国媒体和民众也彻底改变了对政治人物的看法,带"门"(gate)字的英文词尾,从此成为政治丑闻的代名词。

The Watergate Scandal made the former president Nixon resign, but he was not beaten down and made prominentachievements. After the Watergate Scandal occurred, the power of president and White House staff was weakened, the public wasdisappointed to the so-called democracy, the media and the public had radically changed the view of political figures, English wordsending with ＂gate＂, became the pronoun of political scandals.