• vt. 購買；獲得；賄賂
• vi. 買，采購
• n. 購買，買賣；所購的物品
• n. (Buy)人名；(法)比伊

詞源不詳。

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，他成功說服凱給他買了一個。

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

我可能會買一件送給朋友當生日禮物，逗他開心。

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

誰愿意從一家要倒閉的公司買計算機呢？

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

指給我看你喜歡哪個，我給你買。

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

可以買一種含蜂王漿、花粉和維生素C的配方產品。

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