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Last year, the U.S. Justice Department appointed a Special Counsel
去年，美国司法部任命一名特别检察官
to investigate possible wrongdoing in the 2016 presidential election. Witch Hunt.
去调查2016年总统大选中可能存在的不当行为。政治迫害。
The Special Counsel is exploring possible links between Donald Trump's campaign and the Russian government.
特别检察官正在调查唐纳德·特朗普竞选团队与俄罗斯政府之间可能存在的联系。
This is a witch hunt like nobody's ever seen before.
这是一次任何人都没见过的政治迫害。

President Trump is using the term to discredit the investigation.
特朗普总统用这个词来诋毁调查。
Special counsels have been appointed many times in the past.
过去，美国多次任命过特别检查官。
Long ago, a witch hunt meant to find and punish people believed to be evil-
很久以前，witch hunt是指寻找和惩罚那些被认为是邪恶的人，
even if they were not. Here it means an unfair campaign by one side against its political opponents.
即使他们并不邪恶。在这里，它的意思是一方对其政治对手实施的不公平的活动。