支付報(bào)酬
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.
譯文
政府將禁止報(bào)社向證人支付報(bào)酬,那些報(bào)社試圖買通涉及諸如羅斯瑪麗審判等著名案件的證人。
點(diǎn)睛
be to do表將來,該句用is to ban表示“將要禁止”的概念。由介詞by可知,newspapers是支付payments的一方?,F(xiàn)在分詞短語seeking to...作newspapers的后置定語,其中buy up意為“收購;盡量購買”。過去分詞短語involved in.作后置定語限定people,such as...舉例說明prominent cases。