泰国保守派和自由派之间的最大分歧在于皮塔领导的远进党倡议改革立法限制王室权力。请看本报昨日的报道：

The biggest area of disagreement between the Thai liberals backing Move Forward and the deeply conservative Senate is the campaign pledge of Pita’s party to amend a law that makes defaming the royal family punishable by three to 15 years in prison.

The monarchy is sacrosanct to members of Thailand’s royalist establishment. Even minor reforms that might improve and modernize the monarchy’s image are anathema to them.

报道中的anathema源自拉丁语，表示“诅咒”或者 “极其厌恶的人或事”。例如：

This notion was anathema to most of his countrymen.

这种观念是他的大部分同胞难以接受的。