- 1出價高過（別人）、以更高價格搶標。拍賣或競標場合說「被別人喊贏了」就是 be outbid。
To offer more money for something than another person offers. The word almost always belongs to a situation where people are openly competing to buy one thing: an auction, a house sale where several buyers are interested, a bid for a government contract. You outbid a *person*, not a thing — 'she outbid me', 'a collector outbid the museum'. The forms are irregular in the way 'bid' is: outbid, outbid, outbid, so 'yesterday he outbid us' and 'we have been outbid' look the same as the base form. In fact the passive is how will meet it most often: 'We were outbid' is the polite, slightly sad way English speakers say 'we lost — someone paid more.' Outside real auctions people stretch it a little: a company can outbid another for a famous football player, or one city can outbid another to host an event. In those uses the 'money' can be a whole package — salary, taxes, promises — not just a single price. It is a fairly formal word; among friends you would just say 'they offered more'.
組成out- + bid. The prefix out- here means 'do this action better than / beyond someone else' — the same out- that gives outrun (run faster than) and outnumber (be more than). 'bid' is the offering of a price. So: to bid past someone.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
outbidverb/aʊtˈbɪd/
- 1
To bid more than (somebody else) in an auction.
- Bengal outbidded those of Delhi; instead of searching for khalifahs for obtaining recognition, Sultan Sikandar Shah himself took the title .of Imam ul-Azam and Khalifat-ul-Muazzam.
- You must understand that there are people who strive and save their whole lives to acquire something, and when they are simply outbidded or outfoxed by me, it is not taken with a delicate smile.
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