bribe
bribe 英 [braɪb] 美 [braɪb]
vt. 贿赂，收买 vi. 行贿 n. 贿赂
进行时:bribing 过去式:bribed 过去分词:bribed 第三人称单数:bribes 名词复数:bribes
- You pay a bribe to get someone to do something they wouldn't do otherwise. It's usually dishonest and often criminal.
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- vt. 贿赂，收买
- vi. 行贿
- n. 贿赂
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1. The judge was impeached for taking a bribe.
这个法官被检举接受贿赂。
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2. Finally, if nothing about your work itself can motivate you, then try a bribe!
最后，如果工作本身没办法给你激励，那么试试看贿赂自己吧！
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3. Almost every interviewee said he had paid a bribe for his.
几乎每个被参访的人都说他有过贿赂的经历。
- bribe (n.) late 14c., "thing stolen," from Old French bribe "a gift," properly "bit, piece, hunk; morsel of bread given to beggars" (14c., compare Old French bribeor "vagrant, beggar"), from briber, brimber "to beg," a general Romanic word (compare Spanish briba "vagrancy," Italian birbone "a vagrant"); Gamillscheg marks the French word as Rotwelsch, i.e. thieves' jargon. The whole group is of uncertain origin; old sources suggest it could be Celtic (compare Breton breva, Welsh briwo "to break") and akin to break (v.). Shift of meaning to "gift given to influence corruptly" is by mid-15c.
- bribe (v.) late 14c., "to pilfer, steal, take dishonestly," also "practice extortion," from Old French briber "go begging," from bribe "a gift" (see bribe (n.)). Meaning "gain or corrupt by a bribe" is from 1520s. Related: Bribed; bribing.
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