词族 · payola
词形变化
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。
英语词源
- 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.
权威例句
- 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. The announcer was fired for taking payola.
- 播音员因接受贿赂而被解雇了.
- 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?