Buy

(verb.) accept as true; 'I can't buy this story'.

(verb.) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; 'The family purchased a new car'; 'The conglomerate acquired a new company'; 'She buys for the big department store'.

(verb.) acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; 'She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work'.

(verb.) be worth or be capable of buying; 'This sum will buy you a ride on the train'.

整理:莫尼卡

• She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavors to buy them off. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Well, then, we'll all go ahead and buy up niggers, said the man, if that's the way of Providence,--won't we, Squire? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I want some money, you know, Aunt--some to buy little things for myself--and he doesn't give me any. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• People admired the machines as a curiosity, but none were induced to buy them or help him pecuniarily. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Why does he buy it then? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• You have money, and can buy the means of travelling to the seacoast as quickly as the journey can be made. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• So long as your grand folks wants to buy men and women, I'm as good as they is, said Haley; 'tan't any meaner sellin' on 'em, that 't is buyin'! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Her uncle, always liberal, had bought a garden-chair for her express use. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I was not bought, body and soul. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• See here, I've bought a statuette for you! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Generally speaking, meats are the most expensive foods we can purchase, and hence should be bought seldom and in small quantities. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He bought Mr. Peacock's practice, which, they say, is worth eight or nine hundred a-year. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Buying and selling was transacted by means of money in England then as well as now. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And then you have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying books. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I can't resist them when I see Sallie buying all she wants, and pitying me because I don't. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Was it for him to have the shame of buying her, or the meanness of punishing her? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But as Warren Hastings looked at gold and thought of buying Daylesford, so Joshua Rigg looked at Stone Court and thought of buying gold. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There was no buying of foundry iron by analysis, no high carbon steels, no fancy tool steels--nor any efficiency experts with their stop watches and scientific speed-and-feed tables. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A man to-day buys a ready-made shirt for fifty cents, which fifty years ago would have cost him $2. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Mr. Brocklehurst buys all our food and all our clothes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The man buys it, of course, and finds nothing in it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You can't tell what you're smoking in one of these new houses--likely as not the CHEF buys the cigars. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Speculators buys 'em up cheap, when they's little, and gets 'em raised for market. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The man who buys, does not always mean to sell again, but frequently to use or to consume; whereas he who sells always means to buy again. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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