| 词汇 | pay off |
| 释义 | pay off [phrasal verb] 1 : to produce a result that you want得到回报 It's great to see that all of our hard work has finally paid off.很高兴看到我们付出的所有努力终于得到回报。 2 pay off (something) or pay (something) off : to give all of the money that you owe for (something that you pay for over a period of time)清偿；还清 It will take us 30 years to pay off our mortgage, but then the house will be ours.我们要30年才能还清房贷，不过到那时房子就是我们的了。 If I won the money, I'd use it to pay off all my credit cards.如果赢了钱，我将用来还清所有的信用卡花费。 paying off your debts还清债务 She finally got her car paid off. [=she finally paid all the money she had borrowed to buy her car]她最终还清了买车所借的钱。 3 pay off (someone) or pay (someone) off a : to give money to (someone) in order to make that person do something illegal or dishonest for you or to convince that person not to talk about something收买；买通；给封口费 He tried to pay off [=bribe] a police officer.他试图买通一位警官。 The company was accused of paying off its employees to keep them from talking about its illegal activities.公司被指控买通员工，使他们不谈论公司的非法行为。 b British : to stop employing (someone) after paying all of the money that was owed to that person付清工资后解雇（某人） They paid off all their workers and then closed the factory.他们付清所有工人的工资后关闭了工厂。 — see also payoff pay |
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