buy off

1. PHRASAL VERB 收买；贿赂
   If you say that a person or organization buys off another 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.
   1. ...policies designed to buy off the working-class vote...
      旨在收买劳工阶层选票的政策
   2. 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。

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. So you called me in here to buy me off?
   你叫我过来这里就是为了收买我？
6. 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！
7. We'll buy yurts off the internet.
   我们回通过互联网买圆顶帐篷。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. But you can't buy me off with a bootleg.
    但你却不能用盗版唱片来收买我。
11. 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。
12. Can I buy off you like this? For just several dirham?
    我能够就这样收买你吗？就用几个迪拉姆？
13. Son of a bitches think they can just buy us off.
    婊子养的想收买我们。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. It's cheaper to buy off the peg.
    买成品衣服要便宜一些。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. It's illegal to buy off tramps anyway.
    反正收买乞丐是违法的。
25. You even tried to buy me off.
    甚至想给钱叫我滚。
26. You can buy off him.
    你可以买通他。
27. Could anything be done to buy him off?
    用什么办法来诱使他改变主意呢？
28. 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。
29. 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。

  bribe buy off【导航词义：行贿】

  bribe v. 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。

  buy off phr.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。

verb

1. pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor

   Synonym:    pay off