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)有補貼的激增，它們?yōu)榱耸召I經(jīng)濟方面的不滿者，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。
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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，
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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