me, and a pickle mair, for your ain credit like. And what's that but just a bribe? And if even I was certain of the bribe! But by a' that I can learn, it's far frae that; and if YOU were to hang, where would I be? Na: the thing's no possible. And just awa' wi' ye like a bonny lad! and let Andie read his chapter."英文原著 · 《Catriona》
you know very well he was bribed to do it; and risk his own life. And who bribed him? Who should bribe him, but the man as owned the ship?"
"Miss Rouse," said Mr. Penfold, "I sympathize with your grief, and make great allowance; but I will not sit here and hear my worthy employer blackened with such terrible insinuations. The great house of Wardlaw bribe a sailor to scuttle their own ship, with Miss Rolleston and one hundred and sixty thousand pounds' worth of gold on board! Monstrous! monstrous !"
"Then what did Joe Wylie mean?" replied Nancy. "Says he, 'The poor man gets all the blame.英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
Penfold her address. On her return home, she entered the whole adventure in her diary. She made a separate entry to this effect:
_Mysterious._--My letter to Mr. Penfold at the office intercepted. Wylie hints that he was bribed by Messrs. Wardlaw. Nancy Rouse suspects that it was Arthur, and says time will show. As for me, I can neither see why Wylie should scuttle the ship unless he was bribed by somebody, nor what Arthur or his father could gain by destroying that ship.英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
Dumbfounded, and overcome with a miserable sense of the truth of Miss Spencer's words, Nella stood still. The idea of her colossal foolishness swept through her like a flood. She felt almost ashamed. But even at this juncture she had no fear. She faced the woman bravely, her mind leaping about in search of some plan. She could think of nothing but a bribe - an enormous bribe.英文原著 · 《The Grand Babylon Hotel》
"It is a bribe!" he muttered to himself slowly,--"a cleverly offered bribe! Thirty thousand pounds to forget the little I have learned! Thirty thousand pounds for silence!"英文原著 · 《The Illustrious Prince》
Are you seriously trying to bribe an officer of the law while inside a prison?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
- It's not fully worked out yet. - But what Dale is referring to is, uh, Bill Stearn bribed the Pepsum researcher for proprietary information on a drug called Vaccarizine.美剧 · 《Billions》
Bill Stearn bribed the Pepsum researcher for proprietary information on a drug called Vaccarizine I want to put him on the rack and stretch him until he gives us Axe.美剧 · 《Billions》
Bill Stearn bribed a company official in exchange for material inside information.美剧 · 《Billions》