詞彙精選:buy的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義:
n.
所購的物品;便宜貨
例句:
The company offers great buys on computer software.
公司可提供性價比很高的電腦軟件。
例句:
This was still a good buy even at the higher price.
即使價格更高一些,這仍然很合算。
購買,交易,買賣
例句:
This could be a very shrewd buy indeed.
這的確是一筆精明的買賣。
例句:
Whether it's a shoe sale or a stock buy.
不論是鞋子大減價還是股票交易。
v.
買,購買,採購 [I,T]
例句:
If we eat healthy food in the right amounts, we do not have to buy any supplements.
如果我們攝入的食品適量,就無須去購買補充食品。
例句:
He could not afford to buy a house.
他買不起房子。
獲得 [I,T]
例句:
It was a risky operation, but might buy more time.
這是一次冒險的行動,但也許能贏得更多的時間。
例句:
For them, affluence was bought at the price of less freedom in their work environment.
對他們來說,富足是以減少在工作場所的自由爲代價才獲得的。
購得 [I,T]
例句:
About £35,000 buys a habitable house.
大約花3.5萬英鎊就能買到一所宜居的房子。
例句:
If the pound's value is high, British investors will spend their money abroad because the pound will buy them more.
如果英鎊升值,英國的投資家們就會向國外投資,因爲這樣英鎊能買到更多的東西。
買通,收買,賄賂 [T]
例句:
We must never buy easy popularity at Stockholder's expense.
我們決不能犧牲股東的錢到社會上去收買廉價的好名聲。
例句:
They try to buy you over.
他們要收買你。
相信,接受 [I,T]
例句:
Does John buy your story?
約翰相信你的話嗎?
例句:
I'm not buying any of that nonsense.
我纔不信那些廢話呢。
二、詞義辨析:
buy,purchase
這兩個動詞均含“購買”之意。buy普通日常用詞,既可指日常隨意購物也可指大的購買。purchase正式用詞,指大宗購貨或購買重要東西。無感情色彩,強調物品的購得。
三、相關短語:
buy in
v. 大宗買進
buy into
v. 1. 買進,入股2. 相信,認同
buy out
1. 出錢使放棄地位(或財產)2. 買下全部產權(或股份)3. 出錢使免服役
buy time
出錢購買做廣告的時間,爭取時間
buy up
v. 全買
buy back
買回
buy it
放棄,被殺
四、參考例句:
Buy your ticket now.
現在買你的票。
Buy a silk blouse.
買件絲質襯衫。
Did he buy spinach?
他買菠菜了嗎?
Buy someone's coffee.
爲他人買杯咖啡
Money cannot buy happiness.
Go buy a clothes horse .
去買一個晾衣架。
I must buy some furniture.
我一定要買些傢俱。
Does John buy your story?
約翰相信你的話嗎?
People buy silks from China.
人們從中國購買絲綢。
Money can't buy happiness.
金錢買不來幸福。