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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Could anything be done to buy him off?
用什么办法来诱使他改变主意呢？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - We'll buy yurts off the internet.
我们回通过互联网买圆顶帐篷。 - It's illegal to buy off tramps anyway.
反正收买乞丐是违法的。