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Payoff N Count 可数名词   [Oft N S Payment Made

英语单词 payoff
英美音标 英 ['peɪɔːf] 美 ['peɪˌɔːf]
中文释义 n.收益;成果;清算;发工资;报复;高潮;<非>贿赂
adj.得出结果的
英语例句 (1) One of the payoff of a university degree is increase earning power.
(2) Until now the payoff of these reforms has not been seen.
(3) Where are we going to make the payoff?
(4) The problem, they say, is that some viewers don't like to be left at the close of a season by cliffhanger shows that lack an emotional payoff.
中文例句 (1) 一所大学学位奖赏之一是所增长的收益能力.
(2) 直到现在改革的成果还未显现。
(3) 我们去哪儿了结此事?
(4) 他们说,问题在于一些观众不希望在一个播出季节结束的时候,被这些缺乏情绪高潮的悬疑节目给撂那儿了。
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]优势;收益;收效;回报 The payoff from an action is the advantage or benefit that you get from it.
  [oft N from n]
  • If such materials became generally available to the optics industry the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous...

    如果这些材料能够普遍用于光学产业,那么这一突破带来的收益将非常巨大。

  • You're doing what you really love to do, which is making music — that's the payoff.

    你现在做着你真正喜欢做的事情,也就是音乐制作——这就是回报。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](用于避免麻烦的)封口费,贿赂 A payoff is a payment which is made to someone, often secretly or illegally, so that they will not cause trouble.
  [oft N from n]
  • Soldiers in both countries supplement their incomes with payoffs from drugs exporters.

    两国士兵都用毒品走私贩的贿赂来贴补收入。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]解约金;遣散费 A payoff is a large payment made to someone by their employer when the person has been forced to leave their job.
  • The ousted chairman received a £1.5 million payoff from the loss-making oil company.

    被解职的主席从亏损的石油公司那里拿到了150万英镑的解约金。

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