payola
n
(esp US)
1 [C] sum of money offered to sb to use his position or influence to promote the sales of a commercial product 为利用某人的地位或影响以推销商品而向其行贿的钱.
2 [U] practice of paying money in this way 上述情况的行贿.
🗣️ 情景例句
At least we are not the only ones facing these problems.
至少不光是我们面临这样的问题。
Death pays all debts.
人死百债了。
In 1858, a French engineer, Aime Thome de Gamond, arrived in England with a plan for a twenty-one-mile tunnel under the English Channel.