"Operation Shylock" (my favourite of his works, for whatever that's worth) is part mystery and part diatribe.(《夏洛克行动》（无论对它的评价如何，在他的作品中这是我最为欣赏的一部）是部分神秘，部分在控诉。)
I'm not talking about dressing up or staying in fashion (although I highly suggest it), and this is not a diatribe on how casual Fridays and T-shirts represent the decline of Western civilization.(我不是说我们必须盛装打扮或者赶上潮流(尽管我大力推荐这样做)，也不是对如今休闲服装和T恤衫如何代表了西方文明衰落的一种诽谤。)
The blogger who started off the diatribe wrote a post attacking me publicly.(一个博客开始谩骂，写了一篇帖子公开攻击我。)
On Christmas Eve, 2004, Graham posted a diatribe on the website 8a.(在2004年的圣诞节前夜，Graham给8a.nu网站寄了一封信。)
At times it is little more than a self-serving diatribe.(有时这就是一个供自我谩骂发泄的平台。)
The book is a diatribe against the academic left.(该书是对学术左派的抨击。)
He launched into a long diatribe; She plunged into a dangerous adventure.(他投入到一个长期的诽谤中；她投入一个非常危险的冒。)
Likewise, if someone seems to be lecturing you, try to turn the diatribe into a dialogue.(同样地，如果某人似乎在教训你，就去试着把训斥扭转为一场对话吧。)
George III clapped John Wilkes in the Tower for his diatribe not for his documents.(乔治三世在伦敦塔内教训约翰-威尔克斯，原因不在于后者的纪实文章而是后者对他的抨击谩骂。)
