例子：

　　It is quite useless to ask whether Vanderbilt was criminally prosecuted or

　　civilly sued by the Government. Not only was he unmolested, but two years later,

　　he carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiary heinous

　　conditions.

　　我們根本不必追問政府是否根據(jù)刑法或民法對范德比爾特提出起訴。范德比爾特不僅逍遙法外，而且在兩年后又以極其兇狠的手段對政府進(jìn)行弓一次巨大的詐騙。