I’m afraid we can’t print your story on the fraud scandal,it might be libellous.

对不起,我们不发表你写的那篇有关欺骗丑闻的报道,因为它成诽谤。

And as Floyd Abrams, an American lawyer and free-speech defender, notes, a book publisher, for example, will still be nervous about an author who has written a “libellous book”.

国律师、由捍卫者罗伊德•阿勃拉姆斯强调，出版社之流依然要小心那些写过“诽谤书籍”的作者。