buy与purchase
分类: 英语词汇
英语中,buy和purchase这两个词都表示“购买”。buy较为口语化,用于日常生活中,表示少量、随意地日常购物;亦可表示“行贿,收买”。
例句:
They say the judge was bought.
他们声称法官被买通了。
Efforts to buy her off have failed.
收买她的努力失败了。
purchase则比buy更正式。表示经过计划、花费力气地购买大宗或昂贵物品,也表示在高档商店购物。
例句:
The company has purchased some property on which to construct a new supermarket.
公司已经买下一些地产用于建造新的超市。