Purchase
['pɜ:tʃəs] or ['pɝtʃəs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the acquisition of something for payment; 'they closed the purchase with a handshake'.
(noun.) a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage; 'he could get no purchase on the situation'.
(noun.) something acquired by purchase.
奥德丽整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
(v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
(v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
(v. t.) To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
(v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
(v. t.) To buy for a price.
(v. t.) To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.
(v. i.) To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.
(v. i.) To acquire wealth or property.
(v. t.) The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.
(v. t.) The act of seeking and acquiring property.
(v. t.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
(v. t.) That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
(v. t.) That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
(v. t.) Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained.
(v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
阿奇校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Buy, bargain for.[2]. [Rare.] Obtain, acquire, procure, get, gain.
n. Bargain.
校對:鲁珀特
解釋/意思:
v.t. to acquire by seeking: to obtain by paying: to obtain by labour danger &c.: (law) to get in any way other than by inheritance: to raise or move by mechanical means: (Shak.) to expiate by a fine or forfeit.—n. act of purchasing: that which is purchased or got for a price: value advantage worth: any mechanical power or advantage in raising or moving bodies.—adj. Pur′chasable that may be purchased: (hence of persons) venal corrupt.—n. Pur′chaser.—Purchase money the money paid or to be paid for anything; Purchase shears a very strong kind of shears with removable cutters and a strong spring at the back; Purchase system the method by which before 1871 commissions in the British army could be bought.—(So many) years' purchase a price paid for a house an estate &c. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
編輯:玛杰里
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of purchases usually augurs profit and advancement with pleasure.
校對:朱莉娅
例句/造句/用法:
- If you would engage a front room and purchase the necessaries for the night, I may have time to make a few inquiries. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I should not be surprised, said Darcy, if he were to give it up as soon as any eligible purchase offers. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- They belong to the living, I suppose; if not, you must purchase them. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- In other words, you purchase my whole time? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was then determined to purchase no more. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 科學通論.
- When the licence was once purchased, whether the purchaser drunk much or drunk little, his tax would be the same. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Meanwhile Jos and Isidor went off to the stables to inspect the newly purchased cattle. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- On Black Friday they purchased another $28,000,000 at 160, and still the price went up. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Had he done his duty in that respect, Lydia need not have been indebted to her uncle for whatever of honour or credit could now be purchased for her. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- She seemed to think that her distinguished nephew had gone into a slave-market and purchased a wife. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He purchased a site for his factory near New Haven, at a place called Whitneyville now, then known as East Rock. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Directly opposite the main door is a beautiful marble statue purchased by Edison at the Paris Exposition in 1889, on the occasion of his visit there. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He would then commence his purchases, paying for each article separately, as he got it. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I then went from shop to shop, making such purchases as were necessary to the change in his appearance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But ladies in carriages would frequently make purchases from her trifling stock, and were usually pleased with her bright eyes and her hopeful speech. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- With the money which one man gives him he purchases food. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- These copies or duplicates are the talking-machine records which the public ultimately purchases. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- However, it seemed to make everything comfortable about Rosamond's marriage; and the necessary purchases went on with much spirit. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Lists of all purchases had to be made out, and values attached, to facilitate matters at the custom-house. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- From my infancy I was passionately fond of reading, and all the money that came into my hands was laid out in the purchasing of books. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- She assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The foreign trade of consumption is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The home trade is employed in purchasing in one part of the same country, and selling in another, the produce of the industry of that country. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- First, it maybe employed in raising, manufacturing, or purchasing goods, and selling them again with a profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- About the same time Kepler in purchasing some wine was struck by the rough-and-ready method used by the merchant to determine the capacity of the wine-vessels. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The brokers did a fine business, and so did many such purchasers as were sharp enough to quit purchasing before the final crash came. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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