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The security services are rumoured to run all manner of criminal activities ; the army is a cesspit of graft .

谣传称安全部门是进行各种各样犯罪活动的机构；军队是滋生以权谋私的温床。

But we cannot relegate computer games to the cesspit of pop culture solely on the evidence of the current crop of games .

可是，咱们不能由于这个行业现有的水平，而直接把电脑游戏一脚踹进流行文化的泥潭里。

It was a kind of cesspit constantly seething with smallpox and bubonic plague .

那里，几乎可以说曾经是天花和黑死病生生不息的污水坑。

Those tasked with collecting fecal matter went from privy to cesspit to chamber pot , aiming to get enough for crop fertilization .

这些以收集粪便为工作的人，奔走在厕所，粪坑和夜壶之间，目的就是获得充足的农作物肥料。

Archaeologists believe they are on the cusp of shedding new light on the life of William Shakespeare – by digging up what may have been the playwright 's cesspit .

为探究英国戏剧大师威廉·莎士比亚生活的方面，考古学家们日前开始发掘这位剧作家故居的垃圾池。

He added that he only learned that Libor was a ' cesspit ' when the investigations that led to Barclays 's settlement turned up emails documenting the attempted manipulation .

他还说，在最终让巴克莱达成和解的那些调查找到了记录操纵Libor企图的电子邮件时，自己才得知Libor原来是个污水坑。