payola

英汉释义

• n.

  1.〈美俚〉暗中给的贿赂,暗中行贿

英英释义

• n.

  1.the practice of giving someone a secret payment so that they will influence people to buy what you are selling; a secret payment made for this purpose

英汉例句

• 1.Payola is the oil on which the political machine runs.

  贿赂是政治机器运转的润滑油。

• 2.From Ambrose Bierce's fable, below, we can see that a form of payola existed well before the invention of the radio.

  从比尔斯的寓言，下面，我们可以看到，形式存在的payola前，无线电的发明。

• 3."I am the program director of my radio station, so where's my payola? "

  “我是广播电台的节目导演，那我的贿赂在哪？”