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.).
权威例句
1. Somehow, he'd managed to persuade Kay to buy one for him.
不知用了什么方法,他成功说服凯给他买了一个。
2. I might buy one for a friend's birthday as a giggle.
我可能会买一件送给朋友当生日礼物,逗他开心。
3. Who wants to buy a computer from a failing company?
谁愿意从一家要倒闭的公司买计算机呢?
4. Show me which one you like and I'll buy it for you.
指给我看你喜欢哪个,我给你买。
5. You can buy a formulation containing royal jelly, pollen and vitamin C.