The worst scandals of the eighteenth century were relatively harmless by the side of this, which smirched executive, judiciary, banks, corporate systems, professions, and people, all the great active forces of society, in one dirty cesspool of vulgar corruption.

18 世纪最严重的丑相比相对无害， 它使行政部门、司法部门、银行、公司系统、专业人士和人民， 所有社会上的积极力量， 都陷入了低俗腐败的肮脏水池中。

But Joe Burrow is someone that like even when we were preparing for this segment, Kyle our editor was like, you know, he was be smirching him.

但是乔·伯罗 (Joe Burrow) 就是这样一个人，甚至当们在准备这个片段时，们的编辑凯尔 (Kyle) 就一直在嘲笑他。

" Enough! I understand, " — said Mrs. Cadwallader. " You shall be innocent. I am such a blackamoor that I cannot smirch myself" .

“够了！了，” ——卡德沃拉德夫人说。“你应该是无辜的。是个黑人， 不能自欺欺人” 。

Interestingly, the word smirch soon fell out of common use, but Shakespeare's new word besmirch survives to this day.

有趣的是，“smirch” 一词很快就不再常用，但莎士比亚创造的新词“besmirch” 却流传至今。

He derived it from the older word smirch, which meant to make dirty.

他这个词是从较老的词smirch（意为弄脏）衍生而来的。