英语释义

• prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward

片语

bribery[法] 贿赂；受贿；行贿

gainfulness唯利是图（原形是gainful）

英汉例句

• we employed those action not only to maintain the normal production and living but also to root out the social evils like the corruption, the venality and the dishonesty.

  这不仅是维护正常生产生活和社会秩序的需要，也有利于从根本上铲除滋生唯利是图、坑蒙拐骗、贪赃枉法等丑恶和腐败行为的土壤。

• they are hardly islands of harmony. the jail in los angeles county, america’s largest, is under federal investigation for brutality and venality by deputies and guards.

  它们从来不是和谐之地，位于洛杉矶的美国最大的看守所正处于由代理人和卫兵所执行的针对粗暴行为和腐败的联邦调查中。

• instead, he zeroes in on the ills of contemporary chinese society, his barbed posts targeting topics from official venality to the failings of a state-produced movie about confucius.

  相反，他在一点一滴中指出当代中国社会的弊病，他指证的范围从官方受贿主题到孔子-国家电影的失败。

• his isolation from reality, the now rapidly increasing venality of his family and regime and his lack of judgement in dealing with the world led to his final undoing.

  他不谙世事，他的家族及统治集团贪污受贿成风，他在应对世界时缺乏判断力，这一切都导致他最终的毁灭。

• all of this he illustrates with names and dates, a close-up view of venality that, by itself, makes 「exile on wall street」 a story worth reading.

  梅奥在引述举证时将当事人的姓名和事件发生的具体日期都写进了书中，并以特写方式聚焦那些贪赃枉法的现象，凭这点，《流放华尔街》这本书就值得一读。

• on the contrary, vanity more than venality was the problem at the top in egypt.

  相反，埃及高官们虽然都爱财如命，但是却更爱慕虚荣，这正是埃及的问题之所在。

• some applaud this as a clever way to get round congressional venality (much as a similar commission managed to close military bases in the past), but sceptics are unconvinced.

  一些人称赞这不失为避免国会滥用职权的明智方式（这很像过去设法关闭军事基地的类似委员会），但是怀疑者们不以为然。

相似词

dishonesty不诚实；欺诈；不正直

相反词

incorruptible清廉的；不能收买的；不腐败的；不会腐烂的，不受腐蚀的；不动摇的