the fourth estate

基本解釋

But news is not just a product: the press is the fourth estate, a pillar of the polity.
然而，新聞卻不是一件產(chǎn)品，新聞產(chǎn)業(yè)作為一個(gè)政體的支柱，乃社會(huì)的第四權(quán)。
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So far, this fit of activity looks unlikely to save many of them. Even if it does, it bodes ill for the public role of the Fourth Estate.
迄今為止，這些措施似乎不可能拯救大多數(shù)報(bào)紙，即使能見(jiàn)成效，也預(yù)示著報(bào)紙作為第四等級(jí)新聞媒體公共角色的喪失。
Often painted as an anti-English ogre by Fleet Street, Platini is no admirer of the Fourth Estate but he wants to transmit a message to the English.
普拉蒂尼經(jīng)常被倫敦新聞界描述成打壓英格蘭的魔鬼，他并不欣賞新聞界，但想向英國(guó)人傳遞信息。

Members of the Fourth Estate and devotees of the First Amendment, take a bow.
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And whereas health officials may have learnt from their experiences, she is less sure about the fourth estate.
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But then some observers who communicate through micro blogs took on the mantle of the fourth estate and its tenet of monitoring the holders of power.
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