buy

• vt. 购买；获得；贿赂
• vi. 买，采购
• n. 购买，买卖；所购的物品
• n. (Buy)人名；(法)比伊

词源不详。

1. an advantageous purchase;

"she got a bargain at the auction"

"the stock was a real buy at that price"

buy

buy: [OE] Buy has relatives in most other Germanic languages, with the exception of German, and can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic *bugjan (the Old English form was bycgan), but no non-Germanic connections have ever been identified

buy (v.)

Old English bycgan (past tense bohte) "to buy, pay for, acquire; redeem, ransom; procure; get done," from Proto-Germanic *bugjan (cognates: Old Saxon buggjan, Old Norse byggja, Gothic bugjan), which is of unknown origin and not found outside Germanic.

The surviving spelling is southwest England dialect; the word was generally pronounced in Old English and Middle English with a -dg- sound as "budge," or "bidge." Meaning "believe, accept as true" first recorded 1926. Related: Bought; buying. To buy time "prevent further deterioration but make no improvement" is attested from 1946.

buy (n.)

"a purchase," especially a worthwhile one, 1879, American English, from buy (v.).

buy, purchase

这两个动词均含"购买"之意。

buy： 普通日常用词，既可指日常随意购物也可指大的购买。

purchase： 正式用词，指大宗购货或购买重要东西。无感情色彩，强调物品的购得。

More and more Britons buy recycled toilet paper to protect the environment.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

In a challenge for manufacturers, 81% of paper product users said they would consider buying recycled toilet tissue if it were comparable in quality to standard paper.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Environmental protection is not much of a concern when Britons buy toilet paper.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials ( ' , 千禧 一代), will continue to put off buying a house.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Still, 60% of drivers would like to get some kind of self-driving feature, such as automatic braking or self-parking the next time they buy a new car.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Once driverless cars are actually for sale, the early adopters will be the people who can afford to buy them.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Food-import anxiety is even leading to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

This boosts the local economy considerably because tourists not only buy crafts, but they also use the restaurants and hotels and other services of the area.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

If we buy food, we have to pay for it; if a doctor treats us, we know there will be a bill to pay.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Ask yourself, Would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

A 16-year-old asked a stranger at a grocery store to buy him and his mother some food in exchange for carrying the man's groceries to his car.

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

After new legislation demanded their removal from the roads, a low interest loan scheme was set up with three Egyptian banks so drivers could buy new cars.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

For the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.

2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Members—including guys named Jobs and Wozniak—started making and inventing things they couldn't buy.

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

This way, patients not only learn about which foods to buy, but also how to prepare them at home.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

When travelling overseas, do you buy water in plastic bottles or take your chances with tap water?

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

You can buy lots of gorgeous Italian clothes.

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

They could buy unique souvenirs there to take back home.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

It's also pushing ahead in 2016 with an expansion of Bluemercury, the beauty chain it bought last year.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

People don’t just go in a local grocery store and buy these supplements.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

In a 2011 study, she investigated the effects of implementing a Results Only Work Environment ( ' , ROWE) on the productivity and well-being of employees at Best Buy's corporate headquarters.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The video camera that one single mother bought for a special occasion, for example, is not much fun now.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

The solution: set priorities—add up the annual cost of each item, then consider what else you could buy with the same money.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Few of us can fill up the tank without buying a few snacks, cigarettes, soft drinks or other items we can live without.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts and services and attempts to persuade them to buy them.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

A person shouldn't buy an insurance protection that really isn't necessary.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

A recent study graded more than 600 internet retailers on how easy it was for consumers to shop, buy, and pay.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

And these big food corporations have so much money to spend on clever tactic design to make young children want to buy their products.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Best Buy, for instance, has been bearing the lion's share of e-waste volume since two of its largest competitors, Amazon and Wal-mart, do not have their own recycling programs.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

But the boost in investor confidence needed for the plan to work will take time, time that Rosen says still requires him to buy food and make monthly mortgage payments.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Hello, I wish to buy a bottle of wine.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

I wish I could buy more organic produce from here, but I find the kids don't like it.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

If you can afford to buy prestige, that's your choice.

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

In Spain, many people buy a whole leg for special group events such as Christmas.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

It is important to buy the insurance from companies that are financially sound and that are represented by honest, well- trained agents.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Maple Hill signs a contract pledging to buy the farmer's milk at a guaranteed base price, plus quality premiums and incentives for higher protein, butter fat and other solids.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

One should buy the policies to give the most protection at the least cost, ensure the right family members and consider the family's financial needs.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Or head out to the mall, or Main Street, look and shop, and buy.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

People don't just go in a local grocery store and buy these supplements.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

Products which are potentially embarrassing to buy also do well in the virtual environment.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Rosen says he'll use the last of his savings to try to hang onto the home he worked for more than 20 years to buy.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

since the launch of its program, Best Buy changed its policy to add a $25 fee for recycling old televisions in order to keep the program going.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

We have a cafe and library upstairs and a ticket office down the hall where you can buy tickets to all the major Jazz concerts in the city.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

When choosing what products to buy and which brands to buy from, more and more consumers are looking into sustainability.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Buy the best-fitting running shoes you can find.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

A neighborhood girl had bought a new bike.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Another time, he lent a friend money to buy a house.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Buy it from a fare card machine in metro stations.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Buying, storing, and cooking fish isn't difficult.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened (蔓上成熟的) promise, I've refused to buy winter tomatoes for years.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

First, we decided to buy the resources.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

For more information about buying senior/disabled farecards, farecard or smartrip cards and passes, please visit metroopendoors.com.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

For whom does the woman buy the T-shirt?

2015年高考英语湖南卷 听力 题设

He bought a smartphone a couple of months ago and he took it on our recent ski vacation to Colorado.

2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

He bought it when he married mum.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 完形填空 原文

He buys cooking materials for her.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

He could have bought it at a lower price.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a cake for his mother and some seeds for his bird.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

However,he would have to buy chicken feed with the money he made from the eggs.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

I certainly could enjoy the exercise, but I've agreed to go with Alice to buy some clothes.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

I let a salesclerk fool me into buying a discontinued model.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would buy the eggs from him.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

If a student gets hungry on the long drives to and from school, Wilson never hesitates to buy them a meal.

2019年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

If you don't own a camera, you can buy one.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 七选五 选项

I'll go to the market tomorrow to buy all the things we'll need.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 完形填空 原文

It can be bought at any time.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

It had been possiblebut not easyto buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

My husband and I were thinking of buying something.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 听力 原文

My mother bought the beautiful basket and put it safely in some hiding place I couldn't find.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Recently, we bought a twenty-eight-foot travel trailer complete with a bathroom and a built-in TV set.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

See, your computer has broken down again! It doesn't make sense to buy the cheapest brand of computer just to save a few dollars.

2015年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

She often buys food for princess, too.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

Sit on my sofa all weekend and watch the dvds I've just bought.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

That was why he had bought the papers with all his money.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

That's a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

That's when a fantastic life-changing idea popped into head: if I could get more money, I could buy more books l liked, buy anything l wanted.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读表达 原文

The purchase price could also be a signal that an established company is buying a new-born threat.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Then I guess we can buy her a birthday cake.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

Then one night, gene told me he didn't have enough money to buy the feed.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

They know that customers who buy the food first will feel happy so that they will buy more junk food later in their trip.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

This has led companies and individuals to donate money to developing countries to buy computer equipment and Internet facilities.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

We are addicted to buying new things.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 完形填空 原文

We bought one on the Internet actually.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 听力 原文

When my son gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to work, I bought twenty chickens and asked him to take care of them.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

When you have bought a fish and arrive home, you'd better store the fish in the refrigerator if you don't cook it immediately, but fresh fish should be stored in your fridge for only a day or two.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

You bought it from us on May 1st, only three weeks ago.

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

You can buy food for it.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

You have to buy food for dogs.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 选项

In other words, it is up to the buyer, rather than the seller, to decide what to buy.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

America’s new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

By watching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim “behavioural” ads at those most likely to buy.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Second, customers may be willing to buy a company’s products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Buy all your clothes once with a stylist instead of shopping alone, one article of clothing at a time.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

If connections can be bought, a basic premise of democratic society—that all are equal in treatment by government—is undermined.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year-about 64 items per person一and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

America's new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But a group of researchers at Stanford University, led by Ilan Kroo, has suggested that airlines could take a more naturalistic approach to cutting jet-fuel use and it would not require them to buy new aircraft.

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

By watching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim "behavioural" ads at those most likely to buy.

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Second, customers may be willing to buy a company's products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

That s because they inevitably put the costs of cleaning the air on to individual drivers-who must pay fees or buy better vehicles 一rather than on to the car manufacturers whose cheating is the real cause of our toxic pollution.

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

That would be the people who buy advertising from them-and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Five pounds doesn't buy much nowadays.

如今五英镑买不到多少东西了。

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He can't be bought (= he's too honest to accept money in this way) .

他是收买不了的。

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Her fame was bought at the expense of her marriage.

她出了名，却牺牲了她的婚姻。

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You could say you were ill but I don't think they'd buy it (= accept the explanation) .

你可以称病，但我想他们不会相信的。

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She had never bought into the idea that to be attractive you have to be thin.

她从不随大溜认为要想有魅力，就得瘦身。

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Developers are buying up all the land on the island.

开发商们要把岛上的全部土地都买尽了。

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That jacket was a really good buy.

那件夹克确实买得很划算。

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Best buys this week are carrots and cabbages.

这个星期最便宜的是胡萝卜和卷心菜。

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Computer games are a popular buy this Christmas.

这个圣诞节电脑游戏很畅销。

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He bought me a new coat.

他给我买了一件新外套。

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He bought a new coat for me.

他给我买了一件新外套。

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Where did you buy that dress?

那件连衣裙你是在哪里买的？

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I bought it from a friend for £10.

我从朋友那里花10英镑买来的。

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If you're thinking of getting a new car, now is a good time to buy.

你要是想买辆新车的话，现在正是时候。

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I bought my car second-hand.

我买了一辆二手车。

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He gave his children the best education that money can buy.

他让孩子们接受花钱能买到的最好的教育。

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For them, affluence was bought at the price of less freedom in their work environment.

对他们来说，富足是以减少在工作场所的自由为代价才获得的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Once he shows he can be bought, they settle down to a regular payment.

一旦他表现出可以被收买，他们就会定期向他行贿。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I'm not buying any of that nonsense.

我才不信那些废话呢。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

This was still a good buy even at the higher price...

即使价格更高一些，这仍然很合算。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

S & G offers great buys on computer software. S & G

公司可提供性价比很高的电脑软件。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It was a risky operation, but might buy more time...

这是一次冒险的行动，但也许能赢得更多的时间。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He could not afford to buy a house...

他买不起房子。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They can now be bought fresh in supermarkets...

这些现在可以在超市买到新鲜的了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

About £35,000 buys a habitable house...

大约花3.5万英镑就能买到一所宜居的房子。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

If the pound's value is high, British investors will spend their money abroad because the pound will buy them more.

如果英镑升值，英国的投资家们就会向国外投资，因为这样英镑能买到更多的东西。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She put the bite on me so that she could buy a pair of new shoes.

她向我借钱,以便可以买一双新鞋.

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