政府通过了允许警察窃听电话的法律。

The government passed laws allowing the police to tap telephones.

他向我们保证我们不会遭到电话窃听。

He assured us that we were not subjected to phone taps.

安全部门窃听电话是一个公开的秘密。

It's an open secret that the security service bugged telephones.

不要窃听私下谈话，也不要买翻印这种谈话的报纸。

Don't bug private conversations, and don't buy papers that reprint them.

在许多方面，道德目的的缺失不仅造成了如此广泛的电话窃听事件，也构成了审判的条件。

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.