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| 1 | I/T to get something by paying money for it 买；购买 |
| I need to buy some new clothes. 我需要买一些新衣服。 |
| Now you can buy and sell shares on the Internet. 现在你可以在因特网上买卖股票。 |
| Tickets can be bought at the door. 可以在门口买票。 |
| A lot of people just come into the shop without buying. 许多人只是逛商店而不买东西。 |
| buy sth from sb/sth I bought a ball from the toy shop. 我从玩具店买了个球。 |
| buy sth off sb I said I’ d buy his bike off him. 我说我会买他的自行车。 |
| buy sb sth He’ s always buying me presents. 他总是给我买礼物。 |
| buy sth for sb Ed’ s parents bought that new computer for him. 埃德的父母给他买了那台新计算机。 |
| buy sth for £50/£60 etc They offered to buy the car for £1,000. 他们出价1000英镑买这辆车。 |
| Shearer was bought from Blackburn Rovers for £10 million in 1995 (=a football player was transferred from one club to another) . 希勒是1995年以1000万英镑从布莱克本流浪者队买过来的。 |
| buy (sth) in bulk This dog food is cheaper when you buy it in bulk. 这种狗粮大量购买时较便宜。 |
| buy sth (by) mail order We buy all our software by mail order. 我们所有的软件都是邮购的。 |
| | 1a | T if an amount of money buys something , it is large enough to pay for that thing 买得到；够支付 | | £5 million would buy you a nice house in central London. 500万英镑可以让你在伦敦市中心买到一座漂亮的房子。 | | the best education money can buy 钱可以买到的最好的教育 | |
| | 1b | T to give someone something so that they will do something dishonest for you 收买 | | It’ s nice to know that some people can’ t be bought. 很高兴知道有些人不会被收买。 | |
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| 2 | T to get something you want or need , usually by losing something else that is important （通常失去重要的东西来）获得，换得 |
| buy sth with sth attempts to buy peace with land 以土地换和平的尝试 |
| buy sth at the expense/cost of sth Increased profits would be bought at the expense of paying less attention to quality. 增加利润是以不注重质量为代价的。 |
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| 3 | T to do something in order to get more time to do or finish something else 赢得，争取（时间） |
| a move that should buy us another week 能够为我们赢得又一个星期时间的行动 |
| buy time Many feel that these latest negotiations are all part of a rebel plot to buy time to try to win more support. 许多人觉得最近的这些谈判是争取时间以赢得更多支持的反叛阴谋的一部分。 |
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| 4 | T spoken to believe or accept something , especially something that is unlikely to be true or reasonable 相信，接受（尤指不像是真的或不合理的事） |
| ‘It’ s her birthday, but I told her I had to work late.’ ‘She’ ll never buy that!’ “这是她的生日，但我告诉过她我得工作到很晚。”“她永远不会接受的。” |
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| - | (have) bought it informal
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| Sam nearly bought it in that car accident. 萨姆险些在那次车祸中丧生。 |
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| - | ˌbuy ˈin |
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| | to buy a large quantity of something 大量买进 | Supermarkets have been buying in champagne for Christmas. 超市一直在为圣诞节大量买进香槟酒。 | |
| - | ˌbuy ˈinto |
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| 1 | to buy part of a business , especially in order to get control of it （尤指为控制企业而）买进（企业的一部分），买进…的股份 | Moves to buy into other companies have failed. 买进其他公司股份的行动失败了。 | |
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| 2 | informal to start to do something that a lot of other people are doing , or to believe something that a lot of other people believe 随大流开始做；随大流开始相信 | You don’ t buy into all this nonsense, do you? 你不会随大流相信所有这些胡说八道，是吗？ | |
| - | ˌbuy ˈoff |
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| 1 | buy11b | Efforts to buy her off have failed. 收买她的努力失败了。 | |
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| 2 | to pay someone to stop threatening you or blackmailing you 出钱摆脱（威胁或敲诈） |
| - | ˌbuy ˈout |
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| 1 | to pay money to your business partner so that you can control all of a business you previously owned together 买下（合伙人）的全部股份 | The other directors have offered to buy me out. 其他董事提出要买下我的股份。 | |
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| 2 | buy sb out: BRITISH to pay money so that someone can leave an organization , especially the armed forces, before the time that they had originally agreed 出钱使离开（某机构）；（尤指）出钱使提前退伍 | +of He bought himself out of the army. 他出钱使自己提前退伍。 | |
| | - | buy out sb’ s contract AMERICAN
| | to pay a person or organization the rest of an amount of money that has been promised in a contract so that someone can leave or be forced to leave their job early | | 买下某人的合同；买断… | | | | | |
| - | ˌbuy ˈup |
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| | to buy large amounts of something or all of it that is available 大量买进；全部买下 | Developers have been buying up old theatres and converting them into cinemas. 开发商已买下所有的旧剧院，把它们改建为电影院。 | |
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