| 释义 |
‖ mordida|morˈdida|
[Central-Amer. and Mex. Sp.]
A bribe; an illegal exaction (in Mexico, etc.).
1940Life 2 Dec. 102 In Mexico, and throughout Latin America, it is next to impossible to make headway with petty officials without constant applications of the mordida, which literally translated means ‘the bite’, or bribe. 1946M. Lowry Let. 15 June (1967) 101 The defection was the original defection of my failing to pay the ‘mordida’. 1967Punch 18 Jan. 102/1 Just go see my friend, Sr. G., at Gobernacion... He's such a good friend of mine that you'll not even have to pay a mordida. |