greasing

基本解释

Turns out this data guck is good for more than greasing the wheels of commerce.
向世人呈现这些信息是好的，它的好处还不止润滑了商业这幅车轮。
But as a permanent fixture this rule would be an unhelpful drag, restricting short selling's role in greasing the market's wheels and aiding price discovery.
但作为一项永久性规定，它会成为毫无帮助的累赘，并限制卖空操作在润滑市场车轮、协助价格发现方面发挥的作用。
He had worked hard, with every motive in the world, to scrub his German accent away, and that fluency eventually promoted him from armoured-car-greasing to translation.
为了改掉德国口音，他以极大的毅力努力学习；日后他正是凭借流利的英语而走出油腻的装甲车成了一名译员。

Instead, make sure that you know the right people, or at the very least, plan on greasing a few palms.
FORBES: Health Care Cronyism
Mercosur borders are more open in theory than fact: getting goods across can still be a time-consuming (and, at times, palm-greasing) affair.
ECONOMIST: Watch it, that’s us you’re trampling on
One of the new offences is failure by a firm to prevent third parties (such as contractors or agents) greasing palms on its behalf.
ECONOMIST: Corporate misbehaviour

Grease is a thick, oily substance which is put on the moving parts of cars and other machines in order to make them work smoothly.
If you grease a part of a car, machine, or device, you put grease on it in order to make it work smoothly.
Grease is an oily substance that is produced by your skin.
Grease is animal fat that is produced by cooking meat. You can use grease for cooking.
If you grease a dish, you put a small amount of fat or oil around the inside of it in order to prevent food from sticking to it during cooking.