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
- 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。 - Dan: No, she was trying to buy him off, so I wouldn't go with you tonight.
她想要收买他，所以我今晚不能和你一起去舞会了。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - It's cheaper to buy off the peg.
买成品衣服要便宜一些。 - So you called me in here to buy me off?
你叫我过来这里就是为了收买我？