May 30 のThe Japan Times Onlineのキャプションです。
Doctorate payola spreads
"payola " の意味を知らないので何の事か分かりませんが、新聞は記事を読むと普通はたいていの場合意味が分かるようになっているので、本文を読んでみます。
Dokkyo Medical University on Friday joined the ranks of universities found to have professors who review doctoral theses receiving money from degree earners.
博士号をお金で買っている話のようですね。 すると "payola" は "bribery" と同じようですがどうでしょうか？ 辞書を引きます。
OneLook Quick Definitions: a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record
Dictionary.com: a secret or private payment in return for the promotion of a product, service, etc., through the abuse of one's position, influence, or facilities.
American Herritage Dictionary:
1. Bribery of an influential person in exchange for the promotion of a product or service, such that of disc jockeys for the promotion of records.
2. A bribe or a number of bribes given to an influential person in exchange for a promotion of a product or service: "I do not mean to imply that most Wall Street analysts typically receive payola for touting particular stocks"
なるほど、意味は "bribery" と同じですが、昇進とか記事のような場合に主に使われるのですね。 語源もディスクジョッキーに特定のレコードをかけてもらうための"bribery"/ "graft" を示す業界用語というのも面白いですね。
Online Etymology Dictionary "graft" (especially to disc jockeys from record companies to play their music), 1938 [in a "Variety" headline, "Plug payolas perplexed"], from pay off "bribery" (underworld slang from 1930) + ending from Victrola, etc..
Doctorate payola spreads
"payola " の意味を知らないので何の事か分かりませんが、新聞は記事を読むと普通はたいていの場合意味が分かるようになっているので、本文を読んでみます。
Dokkyo Medical University on Friday joined the ranks of universities found to have professors who review doctoral theses receiving money from degree earners.
博士号をお金で買っている話のようですね。 すると "payola" は "bribery" と同じようですがどうでしょうか？ 辞書を引きます。
OneLook Quick Definitions: a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record
Dictionary.com: a secret or private payment in return for the promotion of a product, service, etc., through the abuse of one's position, influence, or facilities.
American Herritage Dictionary:
1. Bribery of an influential person in exchange for the promotion of a product or service, such that of disc jockeys for the promotion of records.
2. A bribe or a number of bribes given to an influential person in exchange for a promotion of a product or service: "I do not mean to imply that most Wall Street analysts typically receive payola for touting particular stocks"
なるほど、意味は "bribery" と同じですが、昇進とか記事のような場合に主に使われるのですね。 語源もディスクジョッキーに特定のレコードをかけてもらうための"bribery"/ "graft" を示す業界用語というのも面白いですね。
Online Etymology Dictionary "graft" (especially to disc jockeys from record companies to play their music), 1938 [in a "Variety" headline, "Plug payolas perplexed"], from pay off "bribery" (underworld slang from 1930) + ending from Victrola, etc..
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