在现实生活中，我们确实看到有的政客老是维护有钱人的利益，有的还甚至接受贿赂。美国人把那些政府官员接受的贿赂称为：kickback。政府官员接受贿赂是违反美国联邦、州和其他地方法律的，可能会受到严厉的惩罚。请听一位电台记者广播的一则新闻：

"John Doe, the former head of the City Public Works Department, went on trial today in the district court. He is charged with taking a 50,000-dollar kickback from the Blank Construction Company after giving them a 3 million dollars contract to repair the city streets."

这句话的意思是：“以前市政工程部的头头约翰多伊今天在地区法院受审。他的罪名是接受布兰克建筑公司给他的五万美元贿赂，以换取他给该公司一项价值三百万美元修理街道的合同。”

下面是一个选民在讲他们地区的一位议员：

"We thought our congressman was a sure bet to be re-elected. But he's in real trouble--his opponent charges him with getting kickbacks for voting a certain way and seems to have some evidence to prove it."

他说：“大家都以为我们的议员肯定会再次当选的，但是他现在可碰到麻烦事了，他的对手指责他在对某项提案进行投票方面接受贿赂，而且他们好像还有证据。”

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