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词汇 buy
释义 buy
verb
uk /baɪ/ us /baɪ/bought | bought

buyverb (PAY FOR)


A1[ I or T ]
to get something by paying money for it: 买,购买
Eventually she had saved enough money to buy a small car.她最终存够了买一辆小汽车的钱。
[ + two objects ]He bought his mother some flowers/He bought some flowers for his mother.他给母亲买了些花。
There are more people buying at this time of the year so prices are high.这个季节购物的人比较多,所以价格高。
The company was set up to buy and sell shares on behalf of investors.成立该公司为的是代表投资者买卖股票。
I bought my camera from a friend of mine.我的相机是从一个朋友处买的。
Synonyms
acquire
pick something up(BUY)
purchaseformal
snap something upinformal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to buy something
buyI need to buy some new shoes.
getI need to go to the supermarket and get some bread.
purchaseShe purchased a new computer.
pick something upCan you just pop in the shop and pick up some eggs?
to pay someone so that they do what you want or do not cause you any trouble:
He claimed that the judges concerned had been bought.
It shouldn't be possible to buy a Senator to vote on issues that are important to you.
 buy someone's silence
to pay someone or do something for someone, so that that person does not tell anyone something that they know about and that you want to remain secret: (做某事或付款以)封住…的嘴
What will we have to do to buy her silence?为了封住她的嘴我们该怎么办?
I'll buy some paperbacks at the airport.我要在机场买几本平装书。
We stopped at some nearby shops to buy some food.我们顺路在附近的一些商店里买了些吃的。
They took out a £40,000 mortgage to buy the house.
I bought a cheese roll for lunch.
She buys all the latest fashion magazines.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Buying
acquirable
acquire
acquisition
acquisitiveness
bidding
bidding war
extravagance
load up on something
make a down payment on something
misorder
money-off
order form
purchasing power
reimportation
repurchase
retail therapy
ROBO
ROPO
splurge
webrooming

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Fraud & corruption

buyverb (BELIEVE)


[ T ]informal
to believe that something is true: 相信
She'll never buy that story about you getting lost!她决不会相信你迷路的谎话!
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to believe someone or something
believeCan we believe a word of what this man says?
acceptMost people accept what the newspapers say as being correct.
creditUKIt’s hard to credit that she’s 87.
swallowI personally find it hard to swallow the official narrative.
buyWhen it comes to global warming, he doesn't buy it, and is out to discredit the whole theory.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Believing
accept
allegedly
article of faith
ascribe something to something
ascription
belief
delude
deluded
evidently
feel it in your bonesidiom
give credence to something
incline
put stock in somethingidiom
received
recognize
room
room for doubtidiom
see something in someone/something
swallow
swear

Idioms


buy the farm
buy time
someone has bought it

Phrasal verbs


buy something in
buy into something
buy someone off
buy someone out
buy yourself out
buy something up
buy
noun
uk /baɪ/ us /baɪ/
 a good/bad buy
to be worth/not be worth the price: (买卖)合算/不合算
This jacket is a really good buy, at £200.这件夹克真合算,才200英镑。

buy | American Dictionary


buy
verb[ T ]
us/bɑɪ/past tense and past participleboughtus/bɔt/

buyverb[T] (PAY FOR)


to obtain something by paying money for it:
She was saving to buy a car.
He bought some flowers for his girlfriend.

buyverb[T] (BELIEVE)


infml
to believe that something is true:
She’ll never buy that story about having to take care of your sick grandmother.

Idiom


buy time

Phrasal verbs


buy into something
buy off someone
buy out someone
buy up something
buy
noun[ C ]
us/bɑɪ/

buynoun[C] (ACT OF BUYING)


an occasion in which you pay less for something than what it is worth, and are therefore pleased:
The rug turned out to be quite a buy.

buy | Business English


buy
verb
uk /baɪ/usbought | bought
[ I or T ]
to get something by paying money for it:
Most people who move into a new house are going to buy things.
There are more people buying at this time of the year so prices are high.
The company was set up to buy and sell shares on behalf of investors.
buy sth from sbWe always buy paper from the same supplier.
buy sth for sb/sthCustomers may be buying mobile phones for their children.
buy sb sthI offered to buy him lunch.
The firm buys in bulk and negotiates substantial discounts.
[ T ] COMMERCE, FINANCE
to be enough money to get something:
A country where the pound buys almost 30% more than it did a year ago will attract British tourists.
buy sb sthA few dollars will buy you a book that holds the experience of a lifetime.

Phrasal verbs


buy into sth
buy sth/sb out
buy up sth
buy
noun[ C ]
uk /baɪ/us
something worth the price asked or paid for it:
The shares look undervalued and are a good buy.
This car was a real buy for $4000.

See also


best buy
impulse buy

Examples of buy


buy
In this new luxury market paradigm a great number of people can buy luxury goods.
This ensures local stakeholder buy-in and that we do not invest in technology that is unlikely to be adopted.
The labourers could not buy these products at farm-gate prices.
Indeed, one referred to buying whole collections as part of his collection building process.
Consider the example of an electronic shopping mall, where consumers can buy various goods in different shops.
For some cities with water connections, households take a variety of defensive actions, such as buying bottled water and using electronic filter systems.
It is expressly designed for photocopying, however, so there is no need to buy pupil sets.
Many of those who bought such private pensions have since been found to have been wrongly advised.
Some books may have been bought for display alone.
These bids flowed down the chain from customer to supplier until most of the buy bids had filtered to the sellers.
As was mentioned earlier, newcomers who buy supplemental insurance must bear a waiting period, which is expected to discourage moves.
Money that had been spent on television and radio advertising was diverted to buy space in the print and outdoor media.
Moreover, his ' simplification ' of the number of prosodic layers buys him little in terms of elegance.
After buying a ticket, visitors are guided to the left, descending steps before they set out across the open landscape.
Every midday there was a long queue of people waiting to buy the excellent value, homemade food.
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