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
- Could anything be done to buy him off?
用什么办法来诱使他改变主意呢？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - We'll buy yurts off the internet.
我们回通过互联网买圆顶帐篷。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。