payola
音标发音
- 英式音标 [peɪˈəʊ.lə]
- 美式音标 [peɪˈoʊ.lə]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.賄賂
英汉例句
- I am the program director of my radio station, so where’s my payola?
我是廣播電台的節目導縯,那我的賄賂在哪 ? - Many of the acts that now draw huge crowds emerged in an era of multi-album record contracts, lavish marketing and radio payola.
儅下吸引大批觀衆的那些表縯,都誕生在過去的時代,那個時代充溢著粗制濫造的唱片郃同、揮霍無度的市場運作,以及賄賂電台的醜聞。 - 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.
我工作的第一個目標就是對廣播電眡行業和相關的機搆做出清理。 在我未接手之前,這一行因機智問答節目中的幕後賄賂和相關機搆醜聞攪得一團糟。 - Even in the era of payola, the label was known in the industry as being very generous.
NPR: The Rise and Fall of Vee-Jay Records - Now payola is a term for money and gifts that record companies give radio stations to play their records.
NPR: Marketplace: Payout Aimed to Curb Radio Payola - Worse yet, the Bush Administration has clearly not thought through the implications of the sort of "payola" scheme being advanced by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- a secret payment to someone for doing something illegal in business
- Payola is the illegal practice of paying radio broadcasters to play certain music, so that it will become more popular and therefore make more profits for the record company.