Bribery
['braɪbərɪ] or ['braɪbəri]
解释:
(noun.) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage.
录入:卢卡斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Robbery; extortion.
(n.) The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.
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例句:
- She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- He made bribery a state method almost more important than warfare. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- A man cannot serve two masters, and as the question of whose side you would embrace was simply one of bribery, I took advantage of your baseness. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The election of Charles was secured, it is to be noted, by a vast amount of bribery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But there is a pale shade of bribery which is sometimes called prosperity. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Somebody was saying, said the Rector, laughingly, that East Retford was nothing to Middlemarch, for bribery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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