【正确答案】As a righteous intellectual, I'm ashamed of the outrageous policy of intimidation employed by the die-hard conservatives who control the government of that county to try to strangle social reform and to prevent the people from carrying forward their praiseworthy efforts towards building an ideal society.

【答案解析】[题目精解] 注意此段短文翻译中主从复合句的翻译，并注意语序的使用。本文翻译时要注意，由于英汉两种语言行文习惯不同，英语句子具有前重心，而汉语句子后重心的特点，译成英语时要将重心前移。