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payola是什么意思

payola

英 [peɪ'əʊlə] 美 [pe'olə]
  • n. 贿赂

中文词源


payola 买通,贿赂

来自pay,支付,-ola,商品化后缀,衍生自pianola.引申词义买通,贿赂。

英文词源


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.

双语例句


1. Payola is the oil on which the political machine runs.
贿赂是政治机器运转的润滑油.

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2. The announcer was fired for taking payola.
播音员因接受贿赂而被解雇了.

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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?

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