buy: [OE] Buy has relatives in most other Germanic languages, with the exception of German, and can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic *bugjan (the Old English form was bycgan), but no non-Germanic connections have ever been identified
buy (v.)
Old English bycgan (past tense bohte) "to buy, pay for, acquire; redeem, ransom; procure; get done," from Proto-Germanic *bugjan (cognates: Old Saxon buggjan, Old Norse byggja, Gothic bugjan), which is of unknown origin and not found outside Germanic.
The surviving spelling is southwest England dialect; the word was generally pronounced in Old English and Middle English with a -dg- sound as "budge," or "bidge." Meaning "believe, accept as true" first recorded 1926. Related: Bought; buying. To buy time "prevent further deterioration but make no improvement" is attested from 1946.
buy (n.)
"a purchase," especially a worthwhile one, 1879, American English, from buy (v.).
雙語例句
1. Somehow, he'd managed to persuade Kay to buy one for him.
不知用了什么方法，他成功說服凱給他買了一個。
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2. I might buy one for a friend's birthday as a giggle.
我可能會買一件送給朋友當生日禮物，逗他開心。
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3. Who wants to buy a computer from a failing company?
誰愿意從一家要倒閉的公司買計算機呢？
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4. Show me which one you like and I'll buy it for you.
指給我看你喜歡哪個，我給你買。
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5. You can buy a formulation containing royal jelly, pollen and vitamin C.