他贿赂他们对他的罪行保持沉默。

He bribed them to keep silent about his crime.

youdao

我真的不想去警察局；因为我以前经常和塞拉利昂的警察打交道，大多数都是他们把我的车拖走后让我贿赂他们，但是我都拒绝了。

I was reluctant to go to the police station; my previous encounters with the Sierra Leonean force had consisted mostly of my refusing their requests for bribes when they pulled my car over.

youdao

他们用香烟贿赂看守。

They bribed the guards with cigarettes.

《牛津词典》

But also people used to bribe the priests, in order to get moved up on the front on line, and they would also give great and beautiful gifts to the temple people and to the temple,and to the priest.

但是人们也贿赂祭司,以便能插到队伍前排,他们也会把漂亮的礼物,送给神庙里的人,或是祭司

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