buy off

美 [baɪ ɔːf]英 [baɪ ɒf]
  • 收买;贿赂
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buy off

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    PHRASAL VERB 收买;贿赂
    If you say that a person or organization buys off another 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

verb

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pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
Synonym: pay off

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  1. All that money makes it possible to buy off officials .

    这些钱使得收买官员成为可能。

  2. 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。

  3. Any car you can buy off the shelf in a pastel pink has got to be saying something .

    现货供应的任何一辆淡粉色汽车一定都有自己的卖点。

  4. Money can buy off a mean person , but it can never buy off truth .

    金钱可以收买小人,却不能收买真理。

  5. Yes , it was a buy off .

    是的,是收买的行为(buyoff)。

  6. And second of all , he believes he can buy off parliament .

    其次,尤素福认为他可以收买议会。

  7. You can buy off him .

    你可以买通他。

  8. The best that most can do is to buy off surplus staff with early retirement .

    大多数企业所能做的最佳选择,就是用提前退休来处理过剩员工。

  9. Can I buy off you like this ? For just several dirham ?

    我能够就这样收买你吗?就用几个迪拉姆?

  10. If you are trying to buy off , I 'm afraid you 've come to the wrong person .

    想收买我吗?恐怕你找错人了。

  11. It 's cheaper to buy off the peg .

    买成品衣服要便宜一些。

  12. The thief tried to buy off the policeman , but he did not succeed .

    这贼企图贿赂警察,但他未达到目的。

  13. 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。

  14. It 's illegal to buy off tramps anyway .

    反正收买乞丐是违法的。

  15. Money ! Ha ha ha ! I 'm rich ! I can buy off anyone ! The world is mine !

    钱!哈哈哈!我有钱!我可以收买任何人!世界是属于我的!

  16. Both resorted to higher public spending and debt as an easy option to buy off bolshy voters .

    这二人计划通过增加政府开支和负责,以轻松收买顽固选民的支持。

  17. TWENTY YEARS OF reform in Australia did not roll off without resistance , so sweeteners were needed to buy off opposition .

    澳大利亚在20年改革推进中并不是没有阻力,因此得给反对派一些甜头来收买他们。

  18. 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。

  19. They also say that no matter what went wrong , the fed under Chairman Greenspan would save the day by creating enough cheap money to buy off trouble .

    他们还说,不论出了什么问题,格林斯潘执掌的美储储总会通过创造足够多廉价货币收买的方法来化解困境。

  20. The officials take advantages of their political power to win money and beauties , and business people in turn buy off the officials for colossal profits and other social privileges .

    官吏以政治权力的不公正使用换取商人的钱财美色,商人用钱财美色购买官吏的政治权力以谋取商业上的暴利和商业之外的社会特权。

  21. 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。

  22. This protester carries a briefcase overflowing with play money to illustrate the demonstrators " contention that big corporations buy off lawmakers to gain unfair political advantage .

    抗议者们手持装满假钱的手提箱,展示游行者想表达的意思,即大公司收买议员来获取不公平的政治优势。

  23. Efforts to buy her off have failed .

    收买她的企图没有得逞。

  24. So you called me in here to buy me off ?

    你叫我过来这里就是为了收买我?

  25. Could anything be done to buy him off ?

    用什么办法来诱使他改变主意呢?

  26. You even tried to buy me off .

    甚至想给钱叫我滚。

  27. You mean buy us off ?

    你是说收买我们

  28. 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。

  29. Unless he drops the charge we 'll have to buy him off .

    他若不撤销指控,我们就得收买他。

  30. We 'll buy yurts off the internet .

    我们回通过互联网买圆顶帐篷。

bribe buy off 【导航词义:行贿】
bribe v. 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。

buy off 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。

同义词

v.

bribe