buy off
英 [baɪ ɒf]
美 [baɪ ɔːf]
收买; 贿赂
同义词辨析
bribev. 向…行贿，收买
〔辨析〕
较正式用词，指用钱财、好处等贿赂某人（尤指公职人员），使其以非法方式给予帮忙等。
〔例证〕
The father bribed the policeman to free his son.
父亲贿赂警察放了自己的儿子。
He tried to bribe the reporter into silence.
他试图收买该记者，让其保持沉默。
父亲贿赂警察放了自己的儿子。
He tried to bribe the reporter into silence.
他试图收买该记者，让其保持沉默。
buy offphr.v. 〈非正式〉买通，收买
〔辨析〕
词义同 bribe，但主要用于不很正式的文体。
〔例证〕
He bought off the manager and received information on the company.
他买通经理，获取了公司的一些情报。
Efforts to buy her off have failed.
收买她的企图没有得逞。
他买通经理，获取了公司的一些情报。
Efforts to buy her off have failed.
收买她的企图没有得逞。
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 收买；贿赂
If you say that a person or organizationbuys offanother person or group, you are criticizing the fact that they are giving them something such as money so that they will not complain or cause trouble.- ...policies designed to buy off the working-class vote...
旨在收买劳工阶层选票的政策 - In buying your children all these things, you are in a sense buying them off.
给孩子买下所有这些东西，从某种意义上说你是在收买他们。
- ...policies designed to buy off the working-class vote...
英英释义
verb
- pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
双语例句
- Rulers with resource wealth can try to buy off their young.
拥有资源财富的统治者能够设法收买本国的年轻人。 - The money which had to be paid to the chief of the tribe or king to buy off his right of the first night, plays a large part in the code of laws.
为赎回初夜权而付给部落首领或国王的赎金在法典上起着很大的作用。 - But you can't buy me off with a bootleg.
但你却不能用盗版唱片来收买我。 - The government is already running a big budget deficit, so has few resources to buy off the discontented.
政府预算赤字已经十分巨大，几乎没有资源收买不满的人群。 - In every argument with her mother, Susan had in point of reason the advantage, and never was there any maternal tenderness to buy her off.
苏珊每次和妈妈辩论，都是苏珊有理，而做妈妈的从来没有用母爱的柔情来感化她。 - I don't know, they buy things off carts these days.
我不知道，他们这几天从小货车上乱买东西。 - I won't keep my mouth shut, and you won't buy me off. I'll see you in hell first.
我是不会保持沉默的，你也别想收买我。见你的鬼去吧！ - You can buy off him.
你可以买通他。 - Son of a bitches think they can just buy us off.
婊子养的想收买我们。 - Small, homogenous countries should also be less tempted to waste money on pork-barrel projects, designed to buy off discontented minorities.
在小而同质的国家，应该会更少地为收买不满的少数民族，在一些笼络民心的项目上浪费钱财。