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单词 to buy into
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to buy into ——
1. intransitive. To purchase a commission as an officer in (a regiment, the army). Now historical.
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1724 Briton 1 Jan. 94 I have known..a young Fellow of a timorous Disposition, buy into the Army, to conceal his want of Courage.
1841 W. Howitt in K. Meadows Heads of People 83 Tom, on the very first vacancy, bought into the Guards, and was soon marked out by the ladies as one of the most distingué officers that ever wore a uniform.
1873 Sat. Rev. 23 Aug. 236/1 A man who had bought into the army as it was must find himself in a very different position in the army as it is.
1995 J. J. Gallagher Battle of Brooklyn, 1776 iii. 37 Those unwilling to fight former British subjects could either sell their commissions or buy into a regiment that was being sent someplace else.
2. intransitive. To invest in (stocks, shares, property, a commercial venture, etc.), in the expectation of making a profit.
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1746 J. Bate Infidelity Scourged i. 19 Mr. Chubb, I warrant him, would have Faith enough to buy into the Stocks.
1807 J. Feltham Picture of London (ed. 8) 275 When Mr. Dibdin bought into the property, we understand Sadler's Wells was nearly a losing scheme.
1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 671 The man who buys into a public stock.
1869 J. Anderson Sawney's Lett. 44 In a short time I made a ‘raise’, And bought into a claim, And there they made me engineer, Or carman—'tis the same.
1928 Palm Beach (Florida) Post 20 Mar. 12/3 Electric Refrigeration touched a new top on reports that new interests were buying into the company.
2001 Financial Times 28 Apr. (Personal Finance section) 6/1 (heading) Market jitters throw up opportunities to buy into stocks at rock bottom prices.
3. figurative.
a. intransitive. Chiefly Australian colloquial. To involve oneself in (a risky undertaking, an argument, trouble, etc.).
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1904 Riverine Grazier (Hay, New S. Wales) 25 Nov. 2/6 A man who goes on a committee in a little town is a fool. He buys into trouble.
1919 Aussie: Austral. Soldiers' Mag. Apr. 4/1 I wasn't buying into any of them fancy stunts, so I buzzed off down to Nice.
1954 Argus (Melbourne) 24 Sept. 3/7 I could have shot the brute [sc. an escaped lioness] there and then; but I wasn't going to buy into trouble. The cartridges you get today barely stop a rabbit.
1986 A. R. Mather Deep Gold (1989) v. 118 He sighed. It hadn't been like that, but it was pointless buying into an argument.
2003 Sunday Times (Perth Austral.) (Nexis) 6 July Premier Geoff Gallop was reluctant to buy into a fight over the flag but did not entirely rule out the proposal.
b. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To agree with, subscribe to, or embrace (an idea, point of view, state of affairs, etc.); to accept the truth of; (also, with negative connotations) to be taken in by, to fall for.Cf. senses 2, 6b.
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the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agree with [verb (transitive)] > to specific point
to go along with1624
to buy into1972
1966 D. B. Harris in E. L. Mattil Seminar Art Educ. for Res. & Curriculum Devel. (Pennsylvania State Univ.) 171 Child A ‘buys into’ the experience and profits from it, child B does not ‘buy into’ the same experience and does not profit from it.
1972 Philos. Q. 22 136 Everybody else subjects himself to a rule requiring that he keep his promises..on the understanding that I will do the same (an understanding I give whenever I buy into the institution by using the word ‘I promise’ in the relevant circumstances).
1982 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 53 15 The extent to which the advisor has ‘bought into’ the ‘going’ perspective affects his ability to encourage students to develop new ideas.
1987 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 49/1 I don't buy into the Western-model germ theory that germs attack us. I am more attracted to the Eastern model, which has to do with a person's energy.
1999 Kred (Kent Univ. Students' Union) Nov. 21/1 Whoever we showed the footage to really bought into it, they thought it was absolutely real.
2015 Nature 15 Oct. 295/1 I don't buy into the pseudoscientific claims of reiki and spiritual healers.
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