witch-hunt

noun

1. （对被认为持不为社会所接受或危及社会政见者的）搜捕，政治迫害
   an attempt to find and punish people who hold opinions that are thought to be unacceptable or dangerous to society

1. (针对异见群体的)迫害，搜捕，“猎巫”
   A witch-hunt is an attempt to find and punish a particular group of people who are being blamed for something, often simply because of their opinions and not because they have actually done anything wrong.

1. Zhu is representative of countless Chen fans, quietly supportive and awaiting his return, whose voices were rarely heard in the media witch-hunt that followed the scandal.
   朱正是陈冠希不计其数的粉丝中的典型代表，他们静静地支持着自己的偶像，等待着他的复出，而在爆出艳照门之后的媒体报道中，他们的声音几乎很少被听到。
2. I immediately felt that this was a witch-hunt and that Hamid was gonna pay a high price.
   我立刻意识到这是政治迫害，而哈密德将要付出高额代价。
3. "Whatever the challenges that beset our society we should not resort to the dangerous ways of intellectual censure and religious witch-hunt," added Dr Abdul Bari.
   阿卜杜拉·巴里补充到：“无论我们遇到的困扰社会的挑战是什么，我们都不应该采取思想责难和宗教上的政治迫害这样危险的方式。”。
4. Mr Tron denies any wrongdoing and says he is the victim of a witch-hunt.
   特隆否认自己犯了任何错误，并称他是排除异己活动的受害者。
5. Next Mr Cain complained, and some of his friends agreed, that the story was not a case of the newspapers doing their job but a racist "witch-hunt".
   之后该隐先生申诉说，那则报导那则新闻不是一个新闻报纸应该做的分内之事，而是种族主义的政治迫害，他的一些朋友也同意这样的说法。
6. His response reveals the real reason why politicians have launched a witch-hunt against speculators.
   他的回应揭示了政界人物对投机者发起攻击的真实原因。
7. Nor do I have any illusion that public or private prosecutions will resolve bigger structural flaws ( in fact, a witch-hunt might be a media distraction).
   同时对于公共或私人诉讼将解决更大的结构性问题，我也不抱任何幻想实际上，政治迫害可能只是媒体的一种消遣。
8. To explain why the great European witch-hunt took place, historians have done a lot of research on its social context and legal foundations.
   为了解释欧洲的大猎巫为何得以发生，历史学家们对它的社会背景和法律基础进行了大量的研究。
9. However, social and legal factors are only necessary conditions of witch-hunt but not sufficient conditions of witch-hunt, not enough to arouse and sustained such a movement. From these points of view, it is difficult to fully explain the reasons of witch-hunt.
   但社会和法律因素仅仅只是猎巫的必要条件而不是充分条件，不足以激起和维持这样一场运动，从这些角度出发，很难完全解释产生猎巫的原因。
10. These bloody trials have been the historical event what we call witch-hunt.
    这些血腥的审判构成了被我们称之为猎巫的历史事件。

noun

1. searching out and harassing dissenters