buy off

基本解釋

Governments are not merely sitting by, watching existing subsidies shoot up. To buy off economic discontent, they are introducing new handouts (see table).
政府并非僅僅坐觀現(xiàn)有補(bǔ)貼的激增，它們?yōu)榱耸召I經(jīng)濟(jì)方面的不滿者，還在引入新的恩惠。
And it makes little sense for free-traders to use taxes to buy off people from voting for protectionism, when doing so would in any case be against their interests.
而且支持自由貿(mào)易的人通過稅收體系花錢收買投票支持保護(hù)主義的人也是毫無道理的，無論如何都違背了自己的利益。
Smaller corporations tend to buy off-the-shelf packages and their IT staff may be limited to network administrators.
而小一點(diǎn)兒的公司大多購買現(xiàn)成的軟件包，他們的 IT 職員也只局限于網(wǎng)絡(luò)管理員。

Yes,it was a buy off. The employee put us at the top of the list for a table instead of making us wait like everyone else.
You can feel something cooling off right. I mean simple examples of these happen when you you know, if you buy cold or hot packs.
可以立即反應(yīng)的東西,你可以感到有的東西會冷卻，對吧？,我是說，舉個簡單的例子。
麻省理工公開課 - 熱力學(xué)與動力學(xué)課程節(jié)選
On my day off, I'll go down, buy cheap outfit,
休息的時候，我就出去，買套便宜的套裝，
我就是超人 - SpeakingMax英語口語達(dá)人

Unemployment is high, and not even burgeoning oil revenue is enough to buy off the populace.
FORBES: Magazine Article

to pay (a person or group) to drop a charge, end opposition, relinquish a claim, etc