Hush Money 堵嘴錢；封口費(fèi)
A payment made to an individual to keep them from disclosing certain information to others. Often illegal.
例句 Taking hush money from the underworld gang, the witness kept his mouth shut about what he saw.
目擊者從黑社會(huì)歹徒那里拿了“封口費(fèi)”，對(duì)他見到的一切守口如瓶。
Hush money意思是a bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret.（為了讓某人對(duì)某事保密而行的賄賂）。Hush做動(dòng)詞可以解釋為“不要做聲，掩蓋”。所以，hush money就是為了防止某人揭露一個(gè)罪行或者一個(gè)丑聞而付給他的一筆錢。
這種做法由來(lái)已久，hush money這個(gè)習(xí)慣用語(yǔ)也至少有三百年的歷史了。我們還可以用hush up來(lái)表達(dá)“掩蓋”某事的意思，hush the scandal up就是指的“把丑聞掩蓋起來(lái)”。
A payment made to an individual to keep them from disclosing certain information to others. Often illegal.
例句 Taking hush money from the underworld gang, the witness kept his mouth shut about what he saw.
目擊者從黑社會(huì)歹徒那里拿了“封口費(fèi)”，對(duì)他見到的一切守口如瓶。
Hush money意思是a bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret.（為了讓某人對(duì)某事保密而行的賄賂）。Hush做動(dòng)詞可以解釋為“不要做聲，掩蓋”。所以，hush money就是為了防止某人揭露一個(gè)罪行或者一個(gè)丑聞而付給他的一筆錢。
這種做法由來(lái)已久，hush money這個(gè)習(xí)慣用語(yǔ)也至少有三百年的歷史了。我們還可以用hush up來(lái)表達(dá)“掩蓋”某事的意思，hush the scandal up就是指的“把丑聞掩蓋起來(lái)”。