價高者得的買賣（拍賣）
名詞是那場「往上加價、價高者得」的販賣本身，動詞就是把東西拿去這樣賣掉——同一件事，一個當名字，一個當動作。
public sale · noun · C1
A public sale where things are sold to the person who offers the most money.
拍賣
核心畫面
You can picture an auction as a public sale where the price keeps climbing: buyers call out higher and higher offers, each bid rising above the last, and whoever is willing to go highest walks away with the thing. The heart of the picture is that rising ladder of bids — it's a sale built on going up.
可以想成：一場價格一路往上爬的公開販賣——買家一個接一個喊出更高的價，每次出價都疊在上一個之上，最後誰肯出到最高，東…更多收起
可以想成：一場價格一路往上爬的公開販賣——買家一個接一個喊出更高的價，每次出價都疊在上一個之上，最後誰肯出到最高，東西就歸誰。畫面的核心比較像那道越墊越高的出價階梯：這是一種「靠往上加」進行的買賣。From the word’s history
From Latin auctio 'a sale by increasing bids', a noun from augere 'to increase'. The rising-bids picture is built right into the word: an auction is literally 'an increasing'.
來自拉丁文 auctio「靠逐步加價進行的販賣」，是動詞 augere「增加」的名詞形。那道往上加價的畫面就寫在字裡：auction 字面上就是「一場往上加」。
etymonline.com/word/auction
One branch
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
auctionnoun/ˈɔːkʃən/
- 1
A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.
- Auctions come in a wide variety. In a “Dutch auction”, often used to sell flowers and fruit, prices start high and gradually drop until a bidder is willing to pay up. A “Japanese auction” is a bit like poker: bids rise with each round and anyone who wants to win must bid every time. Vendors using auctions rid themselves of the headache of choosing prices and instead just pick the rules bidders must follow.
- 2
bridgegamesThe first stage of a deal, in which players bid to determine the final contract.
auctionverb/ˈɔːkʃən/
- 1
To sell at an auction.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。