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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - So you called me in here to buy me off?
你叫我过来这里就是为了收买我？ - You can buy off him.
你可以买通他。 - 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。 - 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。 - I won't keep my mouth shut, and you won't buy me off. I'll see you in hell first.
我是不会保持沉默的，你也别想收买我。见你的鬼去吧！ - 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。