Whole sector's swirling down the cesspool.
整个部门都命悬一线。
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 世纪最严重的丑闻与此相比相对无害, 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污水池中。