While his opponent started a huge smear campaign against him, he refused to engage in muckraking and mudslinging.

虽然对手向他展开大规模抹黑行动，他还是不肯做那揭丑闻、 造谣中伤的事。

Sinclair Lewis stands almost alone as the connecting link between muckraking novelists of the progressive era and social novelists of the New Deal period.

辛克莱?刘易斯，几乎是进步时代揭发黑幕的小说家和新政时期社会小说家之间唯一承上启下的人物。

Journalists must identify areas where muckraking will be permitted by officials, or ensure that their own political connections will provide them with sufficient cover.

记者必须要知道报道哪些地方的丑闻是被允许的，或者要确信自己的政治联系可以为自己提供足够的保护。