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
- Son of a bitches think they can just buy us off.
婊子养的想收买我们。 - 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。 - It's cheaper to buy off the peg.
买成品衣服要便宜一些。 - 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。 - Could anything be done to buy him off?
用什么办法来诱使他改变主意呢？ - 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。 - 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。 - Small, homogenous countries should also be less tempted to waste money on pork-barrel projects, designed to buy off discontented minorities.
在小而同质的国家，应该会更少地为收买不满的少数民族，在一些笼络民心的项目上浪费钱财。 - 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。 - 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。