• 词性及解释
  堵嘴钱；封口费
• 例句
  Taking hush money from the underworld gang, the witness kept his mouth shut about what he saw.
  目击者从黑社会歹徒那里拿了“封口费”，对他见到的一切守口如瓶。
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• 相关词条
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Hush money意思是a bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret.（为了让某人对某事保密而行的贿赂）。Hush做动词可以解释为“不要做声，掩盖”。所以，hush money就是为了防止某人揭露一个罪行或者一个丑闻而付给他的一笔钱。

这种做法由来已久，hush money这个习惯用语也至少有三百年的历史了。我们还可以用hush up来表达“掩盖”某事的意思，hush the scandal up就是指的“把丑闻掩盖起来”。