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Change log entry 50731
Processed by: goldyn_chyld (2013-09-30 09:10:29 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 49241 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
Not thoroughly checked - only referred to J

lobby ~
1) It was approved only after MPRI lobbied the department's Africa desk, arguing that if it was not allowed to do the job, someone else would.
公司向国务院非洲司做了疏通工作,讲明即使不允许他们公司去做这项工作,也会有别人去做--只是在此之后,国务院才批准。

2) 他花了一笔疏通费使案件发生了戏剧性的变化。

GT @ 疏通费 = facilitation payments

A common type in this category of bribery is the "facilitating payment" usually a smaller sum of money made to certain customs officials to clear cargoes
“疏通费”是这类贿赂中常见的一种形式,一般数额不太大,是为了让货物顺利通过海关给海关官员的钱

dredge - seems to be in dicts, #1 at GT, but very few examples of usage compared to the other senses
Sometimes we had to dig ditches many kilometers long, the longest being 30 kilometers.
有时为疏通一条渠道使船出去,要掘几十里(最长的有六十里)的小河沟。
Diff:
# 疏通 疏通 [shu1 tong1] /to unblock/to dredge/to clear the way/to get things flowing/to facilitate/to mediate/to lobby/
+ 疏通 疏通 [shu1 tong1] /to unblock/to dredge/to clear the way/to get things flowing/to facilitate/to mediate/to lobby/to explicate (a text)/
+ 疏通費 疏通费 [shu1 tong1 fei4] /facilitation payment/bribe/
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