Many parents find it hard to discourage bad behaviour.

With more details, here's our foreign affairs correspondent.

详细情况，请听我们外交事务记者的报道。

Nuclear proliferation has returned to centre stage in international affairs.

核扩散重新成为国际事务的关注焦点。

The church can only go so far in secular matters.

教会在世俗事务上只能做这么多。

He will be in charge of all hiring and firing at PHA.

他将负责公共房产管理局所有人员的雇用和解聘事务。

She was basically fenced in by what the military wanted to do.

军旅事务使她基本上无法脱身。

The Olympic organisers say that matters are well in hand.

奥运会的组织方说各项事务都在掌控之中。

I was alarmed by his naivety and ignorance of international affairs.

他对国际事务缺乏经验且无知，这很让我吃惊。

His manual dexterity and fine spatial skills were wasted on routine tasks.

他灵巧的动手能力和杰出的空间识别能力都浪费在日常事务上了。

He was the ultimate arbiter on both theological and political matters.

他在神学和政治事务上都是最终的仲裁人。

We don't like strangers who poke their noses into our affairs.

我们不喜欢陌生人干预我们的事务。

Inspectors were appointed to inquire into the affairs of the company.

督查员受委派调查该公司的事务。

The receivers are keen to sell the stores as one lot.

破产事务官想要将这些店铺打包整体出售。

Over the years he's demonstrated a certain prescience in foreign affairs.

这些年来，他已经在外交事务方面表现出一定的预见性。

They're resentful that outsiders presume to meddle in their affairs.

他们对外人擅自干预他们的事务非常愤慨。

All too often they become enmeshed in deadening routines.

他们时常陷入枯燥的日常事务之中。

Incidents of this type cause irreparable damage to relations with the community.

这类事件会对与该社群的关系造成不可弥合的伤害。

Police are out in force to prevent a recurrence of the violence.

警方出动大量警力防止暴力事件再次发生。

Communal violence broke out in different parts of the country.

在该国不同的地区发生了群体暴力事件。

The meeting had all the ingredients of high political drama.

这次会议具备了作为高度戏剧性的政治事件的一切要素。

The industry minister described the affair as "an absolute scandal".

工业部长将此事件形容为“绝对的丑闻”。