buy

vt.购买；买；获得；收买；相信

vi.买

n.购买；便宜货

Money can't buy happiness. 金钱买不来幸福。

I bought him a drink in return for his help. 我请他喝酒以酬谢他的帮助。

I'd like to buy a strong household bleach. 我想买强力家用漂白剂。

Don't buy a used car from that rogue. 别从那无赖手里买旧车。

They bought peace with their freedom. 他们牺牲自由换取和平。

It's nice to know that some people can't be bought. 值得高兴的是有些人并不接受贿赂。

A lot of people just come into the shop without buying. 有很多人进店但却不购物。

It's a good buy at that price. 这是一笔价钱合算的买卖。

That shirt was a really great buy. 这个衬衫真是便宜货。

buy的基本意思是用金钱换取等价物,即“购买”,是普通用词,可接具体物品如书籍、衣物等作宾语。buy也可表示“付出…以换取…”,这时可接健康、幸福、名声、忠诚等抽象名词作宾语。buy引申还可指“收买,贿赂”“相信(即买…的账)”。

buy在句中主要用作及物动词,偶尔用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,后接名词或代词作宾语,有时还可接双宾语,其间接宾语可转化为介词for的宾语。可用于被动结构。

buy的主语一般是人,也可以是无生命的事物。

表示“在某商店买”可接介词at; 表示“从某处买”可接介词from, of, off; 表示“花多少钱买”可接介词for, at；表示“给某人买”可说buy sb sth，也可说buy sth for sb，不能说buy sth to sb。

buy是非延续性动词，不可与表示时间段的状语连用，但可与表示时间点的状语连用。

buy偶尔可用于进行时,此时常具有特殊意义,如“抢购”“以分期付款的方式购买”等。例如:Everybody's buying the Trumpet .人们在抢购《号角》报。I was hard up last year because I was buying a colour TV set.去年我的手头比较紧,因为我在偿还买一台彩电的分期付款。

buy在作“把…信以为真”解时,可以表示真信,也可以表示权宜之举。例如:Yet it seemed she was buying my story.然而,她好像真的相信我的话。You tell me the committee wants me to be its secretary next year. All right,I'll buy it.你说委员会要我明年当它的秘书。那好,我暂且相信它吧。

buy的宾语后可接cheap, expensive, new等形容词,表示宾语的性质或状态。对于这种结构,有人认为是宾语补足语,也有人认为是状语,还有人认为是后置定语。

buy作名词时的意思有二:一是“买卖”,指用于商品交换间的交易; 二是“便宜货”,指价格上略低的货物。

buy是可数名词,其复数为buys。