bribable

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Susceptible to bribery.
    — He liked always, where Lambert Strether was concerned, to know the worst, and what he now seemed to know was not only that he was bribable, but that he had been effectually bribed. The only difficulty was that he couldn't quite have said with what. It was as if he had sold himself, but hadn't somehow got the cash.

词形变化

more bribable comparative most bribable superlative

词源

Etymology tree
English bribe
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English bribable
From bribe + -able.
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