payoff

1 It was just too much work with too little payoff, and far too sad.

2 Games, what I feel like they often get wrong, is they have a good payoff, but without the set-up it falls emotionally flat.

3 The first one was the movie’s emotional payoff: Tara leaving Christian and Christian letting her go in exchange for a lethal favor.

4 A national horse shortage means smaller fields, which means lower payoffs on bets, which means fewer dollars wagered, which means smaller purses.

5 This ambiguity in the editor's code may partly explain the cavalier attitude shown by Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of Murdoch's News International, when she testified about police payoffs before a parliamentary subcommittee in 2003.

6 The potential payoff - a largely untapped audience of 1 billion - is worth the effort of tailoring a business to African markets, he believes.

7 You spell them out as small investments you’ve made toward a projected payoff where he agrees to give you what you ask, based on your history of asking so little.

8 Filled with moments of great beauty, the book also manages a big emotional payoff.

9 Maybe we don’t see more people emulate “The Wire” for the same reason more people don’t try to make Frederick Wiseman documentaries: The job is massive, and the commercial payoffs, historically, are not.

10 The grand payoff to “Baby Cobra,” Wong’s début special, actually came two years later, in her follow-up, “Hard Knock Wife.”

11 And the payoff for doing more, in Washington and around the world, could be huge.

这些成果显示了它应该在华盛顿和世界各地做得更多，将能收获巨大。

12 Nor does the cash payoff he received for his obedience.

13 Instead, the payoff is the trio of reveries that closes the album: “Always,” “Despair” and “Wedding Song” build on the disarming vulnerability of “Maps,” and deepen it.

14 Deborah Glass, deputy commissioner of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, said she will personally supervise the investigation into the possible News of the World payoffs.

15 While the version from Bravetart's Stella Parks took the best overall, it was Hijabs and Aprons's "low effort, high payoff" close contender that piqued my interest.

16 Around World War II, crime became an allegory for an anti-work ethos: little effort, big payoff.

17 Like a lot of cosmic science, the payoff isn't immediate -- but it lasts forever.

像许多宇宙科学一样，（基础科学研究）没有现世现报的---但人类会永远地受益下去。

18 They're all working as hard as their surroundings - if only all that effort resulted in an emotional payoff.

19 What’s more, the payoffs don’t always resonate with the pineal, which should be the one thing worth counting on from the band — that skill has, for some time, been their hallmark.

20 But look closer. There is always a payoff.

但是请仔细想想，回报总归是有的。

1 成果

result effort harvest progeny the fruit of

2 算清

square

3 结局

net ultimate dropscene end fate ending sequel finality denouement end-all drop scene conclusive enfin point result issue event finish conclusion termination finale omega catastrophe coda upshot capper anagnorisis in fine

4 报应

punitive retributive retributory payment justice reward penalty wage judgment retribution Nemesis reckoning rebound recoil rebound on karma nemesis comeuppance chickens come home to roost

5 决定性的

last final critical crucial fatal definitive sweeping decisive conclusive fateful deciding demonstrative unanswerable

6 报复

vengeful retaliatory avenging retaliative avengingly answer revenge repayment vengeance retaliation reprisal retorsion avengement counter- avenge retaliate pay fix square requite give as good as one gets get revenge on take revenge on get upsides with score off get even vindictive retributive revengeful retributory second-strike vindicative return payment satisfaction retribution retort requital revanche quittance reward repay get right render wanion retortion wrath marque turnabout visit serve wreak be upsides with square oneself return the compliment have the scalp of get own back

7 支付

paying yieldly payment disbursement pay disburse meet foot settle tender defray

8 高潮

climactic bore orgasm climax crescendo capper catastasi point wave upsurge HT surge catastasis

9 了结

covering liquidation settle end determine liquidate winding-up

10 封口钱

hush money

11 赚头

score profit velvet melon

12 回报

payment reward requital return answer repay reciprocate requite

13 报仇

revengeful payment revenge vengeance wreak

14 顶点

peak vertical meridian climactic apical zenithal cacumen height pitch ultimate crown sum pride supreme strain summit tide noon blossom crest ape apex vertex climax pinnacle culmination cusp capstone spire zenith consummation acme tip-top apotheosis sublimity capper topgallant be-all topnotch top notch

15 结帐

settlement reckon pony close the books square accounts

16 解释

explanatory interpretive expository reason reading definition explanation interpretation explaining show explain define interpret illuminate unpack paraphrase elucidate go into

17 分红

distribution bonus distribute cut a melon

18 利润

earnings pickings take benefit gain advantage strength profit yield margin making increment avail melon plunder picking

19 收益

proceeds gainings return fruit revenue profit

20 贿赂款

bung payola

21 结清

dissolution square close clear settle strike

22 捐款

collection offering donation subscription purse benefaction donative

23 行贿

palm-greasing bribery payola greasing bribe oil

24 结束

complete finish closure termination finishing finis cesser do close conclude terminate wink napoo cease liquidate foreclose abrogate sopite

25 结果

result effect finish effort outcome conclusion consequence outgrowth denouement the upshot crop in the event become of

26 补偿

compensatory compensation offset comp restitution redress recompense balance compensate indemnify atone expiate make up for

27 报酬

laborage pay return payment gain fruit reward consideration yield compensation harvest carrot repayment remuneration recompense emolument requital meed guerdon remunerate premium salary wage earnings gratification retribution a putty medal

28 结算

reckoning settle foot square foot up to

29 贿赂

fix bribe bribery sop payola boodle douceur backhander buy corrupt grease alyo take price oil drop contract protection ice bonus hat soap squeeze dash sling graft sweetener salve dropsy sugarplum blat schmear plugola see square sugar smear sweeten throw a sop to Cerberus

30 遣散费

gratuity

31 绝顶

vertical tops summit vertex tip-top at full sea

32 报偿

reward recognition requital pay crown

33 分赃

split

34 支付日

payday

35 清还

acquittal

36 决定性

last final critical crucial fatal definitive sweeping decisive conclusive fateful deciding demonstrative unanswerable finally to demonstration