Bribery
['braɪbərɪ] or ['braɪbəri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage.
錄入:卢卡斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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/造句/用法:
- She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- He made bribery a state method almost more important than warfare. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The election of Charles was secured, it is to be noted, by a vast amount of bribery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But there is a pale shade of bribery which is sometimes called prosperity. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Somebody was saying, said the Rector, laughingly, that East Retford was nothing to Middlemarch, for bribery. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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