Buy
[baɪ]
解释:
(verb.) accept as true; 'I can't buy this story'.
(verb.) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; 'The family purchased a new car'; 'The conglomerate acquired a new company'; 'She buys for the big department store'.
(verb.) acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; 'She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work'.
(verb.) be worth or be capable of buying; 'This sum will buy you a ride on the train'.
整理:莫尼卡--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
(v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
(v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
整理:罗莎
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Purchase, bargain for.
编辑:帕特里克
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Purchase, bribe, subsidize, suborn
ANT:Sell, vend, hawk, retail
桃乐茜编辑
解释:
v.t. to purchase for money: to bribe: to obtain in exchange for something:—pr.p. buy′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. bought (bawt).—adj. Buy′able capable of being bought.—n. Buy′er one who buys a purchaser.—Buy and sell (Shak.) to barter; Buy in to purchase a stock: to buy back for the owner at an auction; Buy off or out to gain release from military service by payment of money; Buy over to gain by bribery; Buy up to purchase the whole stock.
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例句:
- She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavors to buy them off. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Well, then, we'll all go ahead and buy up niggers, said the man, if that's the way of Providence,--won't we, Squire? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I want some money, you know, Aunt--some to buy little things for myself--and he doesn't give me any. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- People admired the machines as a curiosity, but none were induced to buy them or help him pecuniarily. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Why does he buy it then? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- You have money, and can buy the means of travelling to the seacoast as quickly as the journey can be made. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- So long as your grand folks wants to buy men and women, I'm as good as they is, said Haley; 'tan't any meaner sellin' on 'em, that 't is buyin'! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Her uncle, always liberal, had bought a garden-chair for her express use. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I was not bought, body and soul. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- See here, I've bought a statuette for you! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Generally speaking, meats are the most expensive foods we can purchase, and hence should be bought seldom and in small quantities. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- He bought Mr. Peacock's practice, which, they say, is worth eight or nine hundred a-year. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Buying and selling was transacted by means of money in England then as well as now. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- And then you have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying books. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I can't resist them when I see Sallie buying all she wants, and pitying me because I don't. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Was it for him to have the shame of buying her, or the meanness of punishing her? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- But as Warren Hastings looked at gold and thought of buying Daylesford, so Joshua Rigg looked at Stone Court and thought of buying gold. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- There was no buying of foundry iron by analysis, no high carbon steels, no fancy tool steels--nor any efficiency experts with their stop watches and scientific speed-and-feed tables. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- A man to-day buys a ready-made shirt for fifty cents, which fifty years ago would have cost him $2. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Mr. Brocklehurst buys all our food and all our clothes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The man buys it, of course, and finds nothing in it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- You can't tell what you're smoking in one of these new houses--likely as not the CHEF buys the cigars. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Speculators buys 'em up cheap, when they's little, and gets 'em raised for market. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The man who buys, does not always mean to sell again, but frequently to use or to consume; whereas he who sells always means to buy again. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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