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It has become a familiar story in a world 1.（密集）live mics. A public figure is caught out using a vulgarity, and the media have to decide how to report the remark. Web media tend to be 2.（直率的）, but the traditional media are more circumspect.

Take the vulgar epithet that George W. Bush was overheard using to describe a New York Times reporter during the 2000 presidential campaign. Some newspapers printed it with dashes or asterisks. Others said it was a word that rhymed with "casserole" or "glass bowl." And The New York Times itself described the word as an obscenity, which made it sound worse than it was.

It's easy to 3.（戏谑）that coyness. Concealing the letters of a word with asterisks is the orthographic equivalent of covering them with pasties and a G-string —they manage to make it look both less shocking and more salacious.

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The editors make a much better argument when they insist that the paper should stand for civility in public 1.(演说、讲述). There's a lot to be said for honoring the collective sanctimony that forbids the use of these words in public life. It's in everybody's interest to be a little hypocritical about the words, if only to preserve their impact. 2.（骂人）words couldn't convey strong emotion if we weren't flouting a taboo every time we say them.

When you 2.（骂人）, the words are bleached of their sexual or anatomical meanings, and swearing in private isn't considered a serious social transgression. If it were, we'd come up with a stronger 3.（谴责）for it than the infantile "potty mouth."

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译文参考：

大家都知道，全世界都充满了现场直播的话筒。如果一个公众人物飙脏话被抓个现行，各个媒体不得不决定如何进行报道。网络媒体干脆直白，传统媒体则更为慎重。

比如乔治布什在2000年大选期间，隐约听到他用脏话形容《纽约时报》的记者。一些报纸用破折号或星号代替，其他媒体报道说这个字与“锅巴”或“骑马”押韵（本句为意译）。《纽约时报》直接说这个词无耻下流，让人认为情况更糟糕。

戏谑这种忸怩作态很简单，一个单词里面有几个字母用星号代替，等于是用乳贴或丁字裤当遮羞布——没那么辣眼睛，但也够猥琐。

编辑们提出的观点有理有据。在公众演说里，报纸应该维持端庄的形象。很多人说的话都是维持集体表面的和睦，禁止当众使用这些字眼。只要能保留脏话的影响力，每个人为了自己着想，都会有点虚伪。如果每次骂人都不刻薄一下无聊的禁忌，骂人的话就不能传达强烈的情感。

骂人的时候，这些字眼已经撇开了性别和解剖学的含义，私底下骂人也不会危害社会。如果真的有危害，我们就要强烈谴责这种行为，而不是无力地反驳“嘴里吃了屎”。

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