Simply put, it is an act of bribery.

说，这是一种贿赂行为。

Yeah, in the States we don't really have bribes but we have what's called kickbacks.

我们没有这种贿赂行为，不过我们有收回扣的行为。

About a third of those asked said they had paid a bribe in the last year.

受访者中有近1/3的人说他们曾在去年有过贿赂行为。

In Britain it indicated it would plead guilty to bribery connected with oil operations in five African countries.

该公司在英国表示会承认与五个非洲国家的石油业务有关的贿赂行为。

So Sarkozy's bribe, according to the conviction, was offering the judge a job in exchange for information about investigations of Sarkozy.

根据定罪判决，萨科齐的贿赂行为是给法官提供工作，以交换有关萨科齐调查的信息。

The country was ruled by an authoritarian government and engaged in bribery and embezzlement.

这个国家由一个专制政府统治，并且存在贿赂和贪污行为。

The first one is that he committed bribery and financial fraud within municipality and its branches and subsidiaries.

首先，他被指控在市政府支机构和子公司中犯有贿赂和金融欺诈行为。

In fact, there was a federal, or national, investigation of this payola practice in the late 1950s, in 1959.

事实上，在20世纪50年代末，1959年，曾有过一次针对这种贿赂行为的联邦级或国家级调查。

They argue this isn't about punishing him for crimes he was acquitted of, but rather taking into account his admitted violence, drug use and bribery.

他们辩称，这并非针对他已被判无罪的罪行进行惩罚，而是考虑到了他承认的暴力行为、吸毒贿赂行为。

Clearly, bribery, you know, contracts were signed, Pasha's and the Ottoman Sultan turned over these artifacts legally at the time to many of, you know, under Ottoman law.

显然，贿赂行为存在，合同被签署，帕夏们和奥斯曼苏丹在当时根据奥斯曼法律合法将这些文物移交给了许多人。

FIFA, the international football body, and Qatar, a country that has never qualified for a World Cup itself, have been widely accused of bribery and corruption during the selection process.

国际足联和卡塔尔，一个自身从未晋级过国际足联世界杯的国家，在选拔过程中被广泛指控存在贿赂和腐败行为。