單詞
payola
英 [pe?'??l?]
美[pe'ol?]
基本信息
- n. 賄賂
中文詞源
payola 買通，賄賂
來自pay,支付，-ola,商品化后綴，衍生自pianola.引申詞義買通，賄賂。
英文詞源
- payola (n.)
- "graft" (especially to disc jockeys from record companies to play their music), 1938 (in a "Variety" headline), from pay off "bribery" (underworld slang from 1930) + ending from Victrola, etc. (see pianola). Compare also plugola (1959), from plug (n.) in the advertising sense.
雙語例句
- 1. Payola is the oil on which the political machine runs.
- 賄賂是政治機器運轉的潤滑油.
來自辭典例句
- 2. The announcer was fired for taking payola.
- 播音員因接受賄賂而被解雇了.
來自互聯網
- 3. I am the program director of my radio station, so where's my payola?
- 我是廣播電臺的節目導演, 那我的賄賂在哪?
來自互聯網
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