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Bidding Person's Asks Phrase 短语   [Formal 正式 英

英语单词 bidding
英美音标 英 ['bɪdɪŋ] 美 ['bɪdɪŋ]
中文释义 n.出价;投标;命令
动词bid的现在分词形式.
英语例句 (1) He beat out another firm in bidding.
(2) He often does his wife's bidding.
(3) Do my bidding, or feel the power of my wrath.
中文例句 (1) 他在投标中击败另一家公司。
(2) 他经常按他妻子的吩咐去做。
(3) 遵照我的命令,否则让你尝尝我的愤怒。
vocabulary简明 A person's bidding is what he or she tells you to do for them. You do your brother's bidding when he asks you to bring him his shoes and you comply.
vocabulary扩展 Doing your boss's bidding is usually part of a job description, although doing your cousin's or boyfriend's bidding usually isn't required — at least, it shouldn't be. When you are invited to eat at a friend's house, you might have to watch a slide show from his trip to Hawaii after dinner at his bidding. Bidding stems from the verb bid, with its Old English root of biddan, "ask, entreat, beseech, or order."
柯林斯解释
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[PHRASE 短语]应…的要求;按…的吩咐 If you do something at someone's bidding, you do it because they have asked you to do it.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • At his bidding, the delegates rose and sang the national anthem.

    按照他的要求,代表们起立唱国歌。

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[PHRASE 短语]对…唯命是从 If you say that someone does another person's bidding, you disapprove of the fact that they do exactly what the other person asks them to do, even when they do not want to.
  [V inflects]
  [disapproval]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • She is very clever at getting men to do her bidding!

    她很善于让男人听她的吩咐!

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