買通職權（違法）
核心用在有職權的人身上：買的是他手上那份公權力，所以構成犯罪。
bribe an official · verb · C1
To give money or a gift, against the law, to someone in an official job so they will do something they should not do for you.
賄賂
核心畫面
Picture something valuable slipped to someone quietly — not as payment for a service, but to buy a decision. The money or gift is not the point; what is being purchased is the other person's choice.
私下把一樣有價值的東西塞給某人——不是買他的勞力或商品，而是買他的「決定」。錢或禮物本身不是重點，重點是那個人本來會…更多收起
私下把一樣有價值的東西塞給某人——不是買他的勞力或商品，而是買他的「決定」。錢或禮物本身不是重點，重點是那個人本來會怎麼做，收了之後就改了。這個字四個用法都踩在同一條線上：用好處換一個本來不會給你的決定。差別只在對方是握有職權的官員（違法），還是不肯吃青菜的小孩（好笑）。From the word’s history
Middle English bribe came from Old French, where the noun meant "a piece of bread given to a beggar" and the verb briber meant "to go begging". The sense of a handout passing quietly between people is still there — but the direction flipped: it is now the one with power who receives it, and what comes back is a favour.
bribe 來自中古英語，源頭是古法語：名詞 bribe 原本指「施捨給乞丐的一塊麵包」，動詞 briber 是「去乞討」。那個「東西私下從一隻手遞到另一隻手」的畫面留下來了，但方向翻轉了——現在收下的反而是有權力的一方，而遞出去的人要換回來的是一個好處。
Wiktionary, "bribe" (Middle English bribe < Old French bribe "a piece of bread given to a beggar", verb briber "to go begging")
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用好處哄人（日常）
同一個「用好處換決定」的動作，但對象沒有公權力可賣，所以整件事從犯罪降級成家常的半玩笑。
bribe a child · verb · C1
To offer someone, especially a child, something special so they will do what you want.
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bribenoun/bɹaɪb/
- 1
Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to breaking the law.
- c. 1613-1625, Henry Hobart, Yardly v. Ellill Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe.
- The bribes I took did not influence me to become evil. I was evil from the beginning and the bribes were merely a bonus
- 2
The act of offering or paying such a payment: an act of bribery.
- 3
That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
- Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.
- Remy, this was a bribe! Our whole marriage has been nothing but a series of bribes!
bribeverb/bɹaɪb/
- 1
To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something against their original will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
- She was accused of trying to bribe the jury into making false statements.
- October 23, 1848, Frederick William Robertson, an address delivered at the Opening of The Working Men's Institute Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.
- 2
To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.
- to bribe somebody's compliance
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。