• 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。

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.).

1. Somehow, he'd managed to persuade Kay to buy one for him.

不知用了什么方法，他成功说服凯给他买了一个。

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2. I might buy one for a friend's birthday as a giggle.

我可能会买一件送给朋友当生日礼物，逗他开心。

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3. Who wants to buy a computer from a failing company?

谁愿意从一家要倒闭的公司买计算机呢？

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4. Show me which one you like and I'll buy it for you.

指给我看你喜欢哪个，我给你买。

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5. You can buy a formulation containing royal jelly, pollen and vitamin C.

可以买一种含蜂王浆、花粉和维生素C的配方产品。

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