词汇精选：buy的用法和辨析
一、详细释义：
n.
所购的物品；便宜货
例句：
The company offers great buys on computer software.
公司可提供性价比很高的电脑软件。
例句：
This was still a good buy even at the higher price.
即使价格更高一些，这仍然很合算。
购买，交易，买卖
例句：
This could be a very shrewd buy indeed.
这的确是一笔精明的买卖。
例句：
Whether it's a shoe sale or a stock buy.
不论是鞋子大减价还是股票交易。
v.
买，购买，采购 [I,T]
例句：
If we eat healthy food in the right amounts, we do not have to buy any supplements.
如果我们摄入的食品适量，就无须去购买补充食品。
例句：
He could not afford to buy a house.
他买不起房子。
获得 [I,T]
例句：
It was a risky operation, but might buy more time.
这是一次冒险的行动，但也许能赢得更多的时间。
例句：
For them, affluence was bought at the price of less freedom in their work environment.
对他们来说，富足是以减少在工作场所的自由为代价才获得的。
购得 [I,T]
例句：
About £35,000 buys a habitable house.
大约花3.5万英镑就能买到一所宜居的房子。
例句：
If the pound's value is high, British investors will spend their money abroad because the pound will buy them more.
如果英镑升值，英国的投资家们就会向国外投资，因为这样英镑能买到更多的东西。
买通，收买，贿赂 [T]
例句：
We must never buy easy popularity at Stockholder's expense.
我们决不能牺牲股东的钱到社会上去收买廉价的好名声。
例句：
They try to buy you over.
他们要收买你。
相信，接受 [I,T]
例句：
Does John buy your story?
约翰相信你的话吗?
例句：
I'm not buying any of that nonsense.
我才不信那些废话呢。
二、词义辨析：
buy,purchase
这两个动词均含“购买”之意。buy普通日常用词，既可指日常随意购物也可指大的购买。purchase正式用词，指大宗购货或购买重要东西。无感情色彩，强调物品的购得。
三、相关短语：
buy in
v. 大宗买进
buy into
v. 1. 买进，入股2. 相信，认同
buy out
1. 出钱使放弃地位（或财产）2. 买下全部产权（或股份）3. 出钱使免服役
buy time
出钱购买做广告的时间,争取时间
buy up
v. 全买
buy back
买回
buy it
放弃,被杀
四、参考例句：
Buy your ticket now.
现在买你的票。
Buy a silk blouse.
买件丝质衬衫。
Did he buy spinach?
他买菠菜了吗？
Buy someone's coffee.
为他人买杯咖啡
Money cannot buy happiness.
金钱买不到幸福。
Go buy a clothes horse .
去买一个晾衣架。
I must buy some furniture.
我一定要买些家具。
Does John buy your story?
约翰相信你的话吗?
People buy silks from China.
人们从中国购买丝绸。
Money can't buy happiness.
金钱买不来幸福。
