||1:He had the ideal background for conciliation, with a Catholic father from the South and a Protestant mother from the North (though it was she who taught him his catechism, forbearing only to instruct him how to sign himself at the gospel).||2:Sectarianism was so foreign to him that when he met rank prejudice, he often burst out laughing.||3:Politics was in his blood, his father having been in independent Ireland’s first government in 1922; though he himself wandered into it from academia, reluctant to give partisan speeches in the open air or at dance halls, and quite inept at the plotting and manipulation so dazzlingly displayed by his Fianna Fail nemesis, Charles Haughey.||4:Though he was foreign minister from 1973-77 and taoiseach twice, in 1981-82 and 1982-87, he remained somehow an innocent, mislaying as he travelled overcoat, pyjamas, watch; and not realising, so carried away was he with his theories for redistributing wealth in Ireland, that to put value-added tax on children’s shoes might spell suicide at the polls.

||1:作为调和主义者，他有个理想的背景，出身天主教的南方父亲和出身新教徒的北方母亲（尽管是母亲教他教义，不过只教了他如何在福音书上签名）。||2:宗派那些对他来说是如此不着边际，以至于当他接触到等级偏见的内容时经常会突然笑起来。||3:政治早已融入他的血液，他的父亲在1922年曾为爱尔兰独立政府效力；尽管他本人犹豫着要不要从学术界转到政界，心不甘情不愿地在公共场所或舞厅里发表党派性演讲，就那相当笨拙地安排和操作，理所当然的败给了他统一党的对手，Charles Haughey。||4:尽管他在1973-77年间任外长，1981-82及1982-87年间担任总理，但仍保持着纯真的心。就像放错了旅行要用的外套，睡衣和手表（而不自知），他就带着他的爱尔兰财富再分配理论各处奔走，宣称买童鞋要付增值税，此举可能在民调中引发自杀。

Project Hope, backed by the Communist Youth League, was accused by Hong Kong media in 1994 of mislaying $10 million in donations.

比如1994年，由共青团支持运作的希望工程就被香港媒体指责遗失一千万善款。