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.

金錢買不到幸福。

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。