buy
verb
noun
baɪ verb
1 a. to get something by paying money for it b. if a sum of money buys something, it is enough to pay for it 够买，能买: $50 doesn’t buy much these days. 现在 50 美元买不了什么东西。 I,T T
Where did you buy that dress?
那条裙子你在哪儿买的？
Ricky showed her the painting he’d bought that morning.
里基给她看了那天早上他买的画。
buy sb sth
Let me buy you a drink.
我给你买杯饮料吧。
buy sth for sb/sth
The money will be used to buy equipment for the school.
这笔钱将用来给学校购买设备。
buy (sth) from sb
It’s cheaper to buy direct from the manufacturer.
直接从生产厂家购买便宜一些。
buy sth for $10/£200 etc
Dan bought the car for $2000.
丹以 2000 美元买这辆车。
It’s much cheaper to buy in bulk (=buy large quantities of something) .
大批购买要便宜很多。
buy sb sth
$15 should buy us a pizza and a drink.
15 美元应该够我们买一个比萨饼和一杯饮料。
2
buy (sb) time
to deliberately make more time for yourself to do something, for example by delaying a decision （为某人）争取时间; （为某人）设法拖延
‘Can we talk about it later?’ he said, trying to buy a little more time.
“我们呆会儿再谈这事好吗？”他设法再争取点时间。
3 to believe something that someone tells you, especially when it is not likely to be true [非正式] 接受，相信〔尤指不大可能是真的事〕 T | informal
‘Let’s just say it was an accident.’ ‘ He’ll never buy that. ’
“我们就说这是个意外。”“他才不会相信呢。”
4 to pay money to someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in order to persuade them to do something dishonest [非正式] 贿赂，收买，买通〔尤指有权势人士〕; T | informal
People say the judge had been bought by the Mafia.
大家都说法官被黑手党收买了。
5
buy sth at the cost/expense/price of sth
to get something that you want, but only by losing something else 牺牲某事物去换取某事物
The town has been careful not to buy prosperity at the expense of its character.
这小镇小心地避免为了繁荣而失去它的特色。
6
sb bought it
someone was killed [过时，非正式] 某人被杀死，某人已送命 old-fashioned informal
7
buy off-plan
if you buy property off-plan, you buy a house, flat etc that is just starting to be built, with an arrangement to pay part of the cost of the property at that time and the balance when the property is finished 购买期房
8 to buy something in large quantities 大量买进
Companies are buying in supplies of paper, in case the price goes up.
公司大量买进纸张，以防纸价上涨。
9 to accept that an idea is right and allow it to influence you [非正式] 信从，相信 informal
I never bought into this idea that you have to be thin to be attractive.
我从来就不信这种瘦才会漂亮的说法。
10 to buy part of a business or organization, especially because you want to control it 购买…的股份〔尤为了控股〕
Investors were invited to buy into state-owned enterprises.
投资者获邀购买国有企业的股份。
11 to pay someone money to stop them causing trouble or threatening you 买通，贿赂，收买;
12
buy sb/sth ↔ out
to buy someone’s share of a business or property that you previously owned together, so that you have complete control 买下…的全部股权，买断…的股份
13
buy sb out of sth
to pay money so that someone can leave an organization such as the army before their contract has ended 花钱让某人离开某机构〔如出钱让某人提前退役〕
14 to quickly buy as much of something as possible, for example land, tickets, or goods 〔迅速地〕囤积，大量买下〔土地、票券或商品〕
Much of the land was bought up by property developers.
许多土地都被房地产开发商买下来了。
noun
15 something that is worth buying, because it is cheap, good quality, or likely to gain in value 合算的东西，便宜货
a good/excellent etc buy
The wine is a good buy at $6.50.
这葡萄酒 6.50 美元，买得很合算。
It’s worth shopping around for the best buy (=what you want at the lowest price) .
为买到最合算的东西，值得四处逛逛。
16 an act of buying something, especially something illegal [非正式] 购买〔尤指购买非法的东西〕; informal