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
- But you can't buy me off with a bootleg.
但你却不能用盗版唱片来收买我。 - 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。 - You can buy off him.
你可以买通他。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Son of a bitches think they can just buy us off.
婊子养的想收买我们。 - 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。 - 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。