第041句

The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases such as the trial of Rosemary.

译文：政府将禁止报社向证人支付报酬，那些报社试图买通涉及诸如罗斯玛丽审判等著名案件的证人。

点睛：be to do表将来，该句用is to ban表示“将要禁止”的概念。由介词by可知，newspapers是支付payments的一方。现在分词短语seeking to...作newspapers的后置定语，其中buy up意为“收购；尽量购买”。过去分词短语involved in.作后置定语限定people，such as...举例说明prominent cases。

考点归纳：与动词buy相关的常见短语还有：

*buy time争取时间，设法拖延
Tell them we've got problems with the machine;it might buy us more time.
告诉他们我们的机器出了问题，这样可以多争取些时间。

*buy into买进（企业的股份）
Mr. Green used the money to buy into a printing business。
格林先生入股了一家印刷厂。

*buy out全部收购
Our company planned to buy out our competitor.
我们公司打算收购我们的竞争对手。