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unbribable

/brahyb/US // braɪb //UK // (braɪb) //

不可贿赂,无可奉告,不可贿赂的,无可救药

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n.名词 noun
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    • : money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete, public official, etc.: The motorist offered the arresting officer a bribe to let him go.
    • : anything given or serving to persuade or induce: The children were given candy as a bribe to be good.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bribed, brib·ing.

    • : to give or promise a bribe to: They bribed the reporter to forget about what he had seen.
    • : to influence or corrupt by a bribe: The judge was too honest to be bribed.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bribed, brib·ing.

    • : to give a bribe; practice bribery.

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Examples

  • There’s been billions in government money unilaterally allocated to “farmers,” but the line on that has been that money is kind of a bribe so that American farmers don’t get mad about the tariffs that have been going on.

  • The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, which performed these audits, did find that billions of dollars across all projects — though not Yahn’s specifically — had been lost to corruption and bribes.

  • There were many organizations that didn’t pay bribes and were able to complete their work.

  • She recalled her personal experience standing up to threats and declining bribes.

  • It uncovered hefty bribes to get undeserving kids into college with rigged test scores or fake athletic credentials.

  • Cocaine busts, tax cheats, and bribe-taking, born-again Christians: Welcome to the political scandals of 2014.

  • In a sense, she attempts to bribe the pastor, offering to make his church her home.

  • But at least in Moscow, a bribe or a good connection stand you a fighting chance to get what you need.

  • Asked if he did anything wrong, Cianci responded simply, “I was not guilty of conspiracy to take a bribe.”

  • “I did not have enough money to bribe the judge, so I decided to become a mercenary,” Mozhayev told a local reporter.

  • If you knew an honourable man was to be offered a bribe to do a dishonourable act, you would feel sure he would refuse it.

  • It throve because it came with the tempting bribe of Heaven in one hand, and the withering threat of Hell in the other.

  • Father is in a rage because I will not stay home; he offered me to-day the deed for two hundred acres as a bribe.

  • He tried to bribe us to let him go, and made us repeated offers until he reached a figure as high as ten thousand dollars.

  • He said he had sat the whole day at the Central Station watching passengers giving bribe to procure their tickets.