政府对这起事件的处理方式受到了广泛批评。

The government's handling of the ___affair has been widely criticized.

他拒绝和我讨论整个事件。

He refused to discuss the whole ___affair with me.

那件令人尴尬的事件很快就成了镇上的谈资。

The embarrassing ___affair was soon the talk of the town.