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(mǎi)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(guò)稅收體系花錢(qián)收買(mǎi)投票支持保護(hù)主義的人也是毫無(wú)道理的，無(wú)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(gòu)買(mǎi)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(huì)冷卻，對(duì)吧？,我是說(shuō)，舉個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單的例子。
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On my day off, I'll go down, buy cheap outfit,
休息的時(shí)候，我就出去，買(mǎi)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