payola 英 [peɪˈəʊlə] 　 美 [peɪˈoʊlə]

payola

payola　 英 [peɪˈəʊlə] 美 [peɪˈoʊlə]

n. 贿赂　

名词复数:payolas　

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 ？
My first objective in the job was to clean up the agency and the industry, which before I arrived had been embroiled in quiz-show, payola, and agency scandals.　我工作的第一个目标就是对广播电视行业和相关的机构做出清理。 在我未接手之前，这一行因机智问答节目中的幕后贿赂和相关机构丑闻搅得一团糟。

  • When a radio station is paid money in exchange for frequently playing a certain song, that's payola. If you bribe your local disc jockey to feature your latest hip hop track on her morning show, it's payola.
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  • n. 贿赂

  • 1. 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 ？

  • 2. My first objective in the job was to clean up the agency and the industry, which before I arrived had been embroiled in quiz-show, payola, and agency scandals.

    我工作的第一个目标就是对广播电视行业和相关的机构做出清理。 在我未接手之前，这一行因机智问答节目中的幕后贿赂和相关机构丑闻搅得一团糟。

  • 3. Although the overall impact of payola is negative, it has sometimes helped great music reach an audience.

    虽然贿赂的总体影响是负面性的，但是有时它帮助伟大的音乐取得其最初的听众。

  • 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.
pay·ola / peɪˈəʊlə ; NAmE peɪˈoʊlə / noun [uncountable ] ( NAmE) ( informal) the practice of giving or taking payments for doing sth illegal, especially for illegally influencing the sales of a particular product 买通，贿赂（尤指为非法影响销售） SYN bribery payola payolas pay·ola / peɪˈəʊlə ; NAmE peɪˈoʊlə /
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