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vt. 买，买得19 次
are likely to buy climate-friendly eggs.
很可能会购买气候友好型鸡蛋
When Microsoft bought task management app Wunderlist and mobile calendar Sunrise in 2015, it picked up two newcomers that were attracting considerable buzz in Silicon Valley.
2015年，微软收购了任务管理应用Wunderlist和移动日历Sunrise，从而拿下了两家在硅谷备受关注的新公司。
“They bought the seedlings and closed them down,” complained Paul Arnold, a partner at San Francisco-based Switch Ventures, putting an end to businesses that might one day turn into competitors.
“他们买下这些幼苗，然后把它们关掉了，”总部位于旧金山的Switch Ventures的合伙人保罗·阿诺德抱怨道，这样就终结了那些有朝一日可能成为竞争对手的企业。
However, critics say the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a “buy and kill” tactic to simply close them down.
然而，批评者表示，大公司利用此类交易，在最具威胁的潜在竞争对手的业务有机会发展壮大之前就将其买下，有时这是“收购并扼杀”策略的一部分，直接将其关闭。
However, critics say the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a “buy and kill” tactic to simply close them down.
然而，批评者表示，大公司利用此类交易，在最具威胁的潜在竞争对手的业务有机会发展壮大之前就将其买下，有时这是“收购并扼杀”策略的一部分，直接将其关闭。
And people made car-buying decisions that were both objectively better and more personally satisfying when asked to focus on their feelings rather than on details, but only if the decision was complex — when they had a lot of information to process.
而当人们被要求关注自己的感受而非细节时，他们做出的购车决定在客观上更好，个人也更满意，但这仅限于决策复杂的情况——即他们有大量信息需要处理时。
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That’s because they inevitably put the costs of cleaning the air on to individual drivers — who must pay fees or buy better vehicles — rather than on to the car manufacturers whose cheating is the real cause of our toxic pollution.
这是因为这些措施不可避免地把净化空气的成本转嫁给了个体司机——他们必须缴纳费用或购买更好的车辆——而不是转嫁给汽车制造商，而后者的欺骗行为才是造成有毒污染的真正原因。
That would be the people who buy advertising from them — and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.
客户是那些从它们那里购买广告的人——而脸书和谷歌这两大虚拟巨头主导着数字广告，损害了所有其他媒体和娱乐公司的利益。
Second, customers may be willing to buy a company’s products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.
其次，顾客可能愿意购买一家公司的产品，以此间接地为该公司资助的公益事业捐款。
Buy all your clothes at once with a stylist instead of shopping alone, one article of clothing at a time.
和造型师一起一次性买齐所有衣服，而不是独自一件一件地去买。
The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you’ll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you’ll buy.
原因很简单：你在店里待得越久，看到的东西就越多；看到的东西越多，买的就越多。
After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally — which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.
购物大约40分钟后，大多数人就不再努力进行理性选择，而是开始情绪化购物——正是在这个时候，我们的购物车里堆积起了那50%原本根本没打算买的东西。
You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.
俗话说，品位是买不来的，这些暴发户企业家也无法为他们的奖项买来诺贝尔奖那样的声望。
You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.
俗话说，品位是买不来的，这些暴发户企业家也无法为他们的奖项买来诺贝尔奖那样的声望。
Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.
买礼物或做慈善往往比给自己买东西更令人愉快，而奢侈品在节制享用时最令人享受。
Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones.
金钱或许买不到幸福，但富裕国家的人通常比贫穷国家的人更幸福。
Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year — about 64 items per person — and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.
她发现，美国人每年购买约200亿件衣服——人均约64件——无论他们捐出多少，这种过量消费都会造成浪费。
With them, there’s not the same embarrassment as when buying one carrot in a little greengrocer.
在超市里，你不会像在小蔬菜水果店只买一根胡萝卜时那样感到尴尬。
The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.
这场冲突自2002年起就逐渐浮现，那一年该公司买下了佛蒙特州唯一的核电站——位于弗农的一座老化反应堆。
vi. 购买东西3 次
“We are hopeful with our shops now open again that normality will return and that we will be allowed to buy appropriately.
“如今我们的门店已重新开业，我们希望一切能恢复正常，希望我们能够被允许适当地进货。
By watching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim “behavioural” ads at those most likely to buy.
通过观察人们在网上搜索什么、点击什么、说什么，公司可以把“行为定向”广告投向那些最有可能购买的人。
If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face (one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling), we can take a moment before buying.
如果我们知道自己看到一张笑脸时会对消费品或住房选择反应过度（这正是优秀的销售代表和房地产经纪人总是面带微笑的原因之一），我们就可以在购买前稍作停顿。
n. （buy-in）认同，支持派生3 次
To gain buy-in on an innovative, new idea, follow these steps:
要让别人认同一个创新的新想法，请遵循以下步骤：
One of the biggest barriers to gaining buy-in occurs when the owner of an idea is viewed as argumentative, defensive, or close-minded.
获得认同的最大障碍之一，是想法的提出者被视为好争辩、爱防御或思想封闭。
To make such “tremendous changes,” she adds, you need social buy-in.
她补充说，要实现如此“巨大的变革”，你需要获得社会的认同。
vt. 向...行贿，收买1 次
If connections can be bought, a basic premise of democratic society — that all are equal in treatment by government — is undermined.
如果关系可以用钱买到，民主社会的一个基本前提——所有人都受到政府的平等对待——就会遭到破坏。
vt. 相信，接受（说法、观点等）大纲外1 次
Not everyone buys the win-win rhetoric.
并非所有人都认同这种双赢的说辞。
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Now, with record-high home prices and historically low inventory, there’s an increased urgency in such regulation, particularly among those who worry that developers will come in and buy up swaths of housing to flip for a fortune on the short-term rental market.
如今，房价创下历史新高，房源库存处于历史低位，此类监管变得更加紧迫，尤其是在那些担心开发商会进场大量收购住房、再投放到短租市场上转手牟取暴利的人看来。
As a linguist once said, “You can get people to think it’s nonsense at the same time that you buy into it.”
正如一位语言学家曾经说过的：“你可以让人们一边觉得它是胡扯，一边又认同它。”