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Bid Past English Pray Class Strong Tense Participle

单词 bid
音标 [bid]
解释 v.命令;出价,投标
红宝书 【英】 v.命令(command);出价,投标(offer as a price)
【例】 She bade him enter.
字源 bid (v.)
probably a merger of two old words: The sense in bid farewell is from Old English biddan "to ask, entreat, pray, beseech; order; beg" (class V strong verb, past tense bæd, past participle beden), from Proto-Germanic *bidjan "to pray, entreat" (source also of German bitten "to ask," attested from 8c.), which, according to Kluge and Watkins is from a PIE root *gwhedh- "to ask, pray" (see bead (n.)).
To bid at an auction, meanwhile, is from Old English beodan "offer, proclaim" (class II strong verb; past tense bead, past participle boden), from Proto-Germanic *beudan "to stretch out, reach out, offer, present," (source also of German bieten "to offer"), from PIE root *bheudh- "to be aware, make aware" (cognates: Sanskrit bodhati "is awake, is watchful, observes," buddhah "awakened, enlightened;" Old Church Slavonic bljudo "to observe;" Lithuanian budeti "to be awake;" Old Irish buide "contentment, thanks"). As a noun, 1788, from the verb.
不择手段背单词 v. 命令 = command; 出价, 投标(出价或接受某一特定的价格); 叫牌
【例】Do as you are bidden 按吩咐你的去做. I bid four Yuan for that picture 那幅画我出价4元. I bid 2 spades 我叫两个黑桃.
趣味全助记 【记】音:比的,互相比谁出价高

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