Japan's Nikon has become the latest foreign company to receive brickbats from China's state-run CCTV network, and investors are clearly nervous. 日本尼康(Nikon)成为中国官方中央电视台(CCTV)攻击的最新一家外资企业,这一消息显然令投资者十分紧张。
As the new rescue plan has attracted brickbats rather than plaudits, pressure is growing for the government to go the whole hog and nationalise the banks in which it has such a big stake. 由于新的救援计划遭到了抨击而不是喝彩,使政府将本来已占了很大一部分股份的银行彻底国有化的压力正在迅速增加。
We may live in an age of anti-Americanism but, in spite of all the brickbats hurled at the Bush administration, lots of people, even in so-called rogue states, still like and admire America. 我们或许生活在一个反美的时代,不过,尽管布什政府常被人扔板砖,但有许多人,甚至是所谓“无赖国家”里的人,他们仍然喜欢乃至仰慕美国。
The members of Parliament hurled brickbats at the minister. 议员们强烈指责该大臣。
There is no gainsaying the power of word of mouth to make or break a new product. Just ask those who have been on the receiving end of consumer brickbats or bouquets. 没有人否认口碑拥有成就或毁灭一个新产品的强大力量,只要问问那些曾被消费者大肆抨击或赞扬的厂商,你自然就会明白。
As can be seen from the amount of brickbats Singaporeans receive from ourselves on the newspapers, we do not exactly have a healthy self-image. 新加坡人通过报章对自己的批评,难道还不够多吗?我们并没有一个很健康的自我形象。