喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture handing over money and getting something back: 'buy' is that exchange — you pay, and the thing becomes yours. Almost every other use is this same trade with the goods swapped out: instead of an object you might 'buy' time, or a belief, or a person's loyalty, or pay a heavy cost for a gain. The noun side simply freezes the act into a thing — 'a buy' is either the deal you made or the bargain worth making.

可以想成把錢遞出去、東西換回來：buy 就是這個交換——你付錢，那樣東西就歸你了。幾乎其他所有用法都是同一筆交易，只…更多收起可以想成把錢遞出去、東西換回來：buy 就是這個交換——你付錢，那樣東西就歸你了。幾乎其他所有用法都是同一筆交易，只是把『換回來的貨』換成別的：你可能用錢換到的是時間、是一個說法的可信、是某人的忠誠，或是用一項損失去換一個好處。名詞那邊則把這個『買』的動作凍結成一樣東西——a buy 不是你做成的那筆交易，就是那個值得下手的好價錢。

原始詞典資料9 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。

buyverb/baɪ/

  • 1

    To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.

    • Who'd Father buy the car for? He bought it for me, not for you.
    • Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.
  • 2

    To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.

    • I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams.
    • You just bought yourself an assault charge!
  • 3

    archaicTo suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).

    • VVhat villaine, doſt ſtrike me? I ſweare by the rood, As I am Iacke Strawe, thou ſhalt buy it with thy blood.
  • 4

    To bribe.

    • He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs.
    • After Bongino reiterated that Epstein killed himself, he was flooded with responses of disbelief. "WHO has bought the both of you?" one X user asked of Bongino and Patel, referencing the Fox News interview.
  • 5

    To be equivalent to in value.

    • The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to.
  • 6

    informalto accept as true; to believe

    • I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!
    • People like to say that dead people look asleep, and maybe she would have bought that under different circumstances.
  • 7

    To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)

    • She buys for Federated.
    • Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying.
  • 8

    slangcard-gamespokerTo make a bluff, usually a large one.

    • Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff.

buynoun/baɪ/

  • 1

    Something which is bought; a purchase.

    • At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy.
    • PEARS ARE GOOD FRUIT BUY FOR QUICK, EASY DESSERTS

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。