Bribe
[braɪb]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
(verb.) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; 'This judge can be bought'.
整理:威廉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A gift begged; a present.
(n.) A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.
(n.) That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
(v. t.) To rob or steal.
(v. t.) To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.
(v. t.) To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.
(v. i.) To commit robbery or theft.
(v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.
手打:西尔维亚
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Reward of treachery.
v. a. Suborn, gain by a bribe, give a bribe to.
费利西亚編輯
解釋/意思:
n. something given to influence unduly the judgment or corrupt the conduct: allurement.—v.t. to influence by a bribe: to gain over.—v.i. to practise bribery.—ns. Brib′er one who bribes; Brib′ery the act of giving or taking bribes; Brib′ery-oath an oath taken by an elector that he has not been bribed.
艾伦校對
例句/造句/用法:
- She hated calls of the formal sort, and never made any till Amy compelled her with a bargain, bribe, or promise. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I suggested, as I rose to go, that it was not right to betray my guardian's confidence for a bribe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- To my great astonishment, it turned out, however, that the waistcoat was not an honour, but a bribe. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Then the Jew wanted to bribe my friend, who steadfastly refused for the reason, as he told the Jew, that he might be court-martialled and shot. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Whether they were always so free from avarice, partialities, or want, that a bribe, or some other sinister view, could have no place among them? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- She came down and brought money with her, trying to bribe me to go. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I have not taken a bribe yet. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- No threats of torture or death, no bribes, however fabulous, would move him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- No, she secretly bribes a nurse to let her escape. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My dear Miss Summerson, he returned with a candid hilarity that was all his own, I can't be bribed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I bribed you! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I can say of you what will make it stupidity to suppose that you would be bribed to do a wickedness. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Now I come to think of it, he looked inquiringly at us with his frankest smile as he made the discovery, Vholes bribed me, perhaps? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The king relied on his army, and this was usually a mercenary army of foreigners, speedily mutinous if there was no pay or plunder, and easily bribed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For if politics is merely a guerilla war between the bribed and the unbribed, then statecraft is not a human service but a moral testing ground. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- How can I be bribed? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Charles on his way from Spain to Germany visited England and secured the support of Henry against Francis by bribing his minister, Cardinal Wolsey. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:克劳斯