| 词组 | bid |
| 释义 | bid 1. • In his bid for support in the South —John Kenneth Galbraith, New York, 15 Nov. 1971 • ... subject only to the market, bankruptcy, a takeover bid —John Fischer, Harper's, March 1971 2. Verb. Bid has irregular inflected forms. When it means "to make a bid" it usually has the unchanged bid as both past and past participle: • ... was pleased when Betty Franklin, one of his black material handlers, bid for the job —Stephen Sahlein, The Affirmative Action Handbook, 1978 • She was bid on by a man from a French agency — Audax Minor, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 1972 Bidded can be found but is not usual: • ... specified other particular suppliers on other bidded contracts —Jonathan Kwitny, Wallstreet Jour., 21 Jan.1975 In other senses the most common past is bade: • ... bade his marshals make the scene as lavish as possible —S. J. Perelman, New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1972 • ... the pianist bade us follow him —Horace Sutton, Saturday Rev., 19 June 1971 Bid is sometimes also found: • The outgoing Truman bid a similar farewell eight years ago —Trends, 24 Nov. 1960 In the phrase bid fair to, bid is more frequent as past, though bade is also used: • ... first appeared in 1953 and together bid fair to become an institution —Martin James, Saturday Rev., 10 July 1954 • The summer of 1885 bid fair to be one of more than ordinary interest —Dictionary of American Biography, 1928 • ... what with the sweat and Indeharu's exertions it bade fair to disintegrate —C. S. Forester, The Sky and the Forest, 1948 As past participle, bid and bidden are the most usual: • ... those manuscripts that he had once bid Max Brod to dispose of —Philip Roth, Reading Myself and Others, 1975 • ... we have bid adieu to most historical problems — John Wilkinson, Center Mag., May 1968 • ... she was bidden to dine at Windsor —Georgina Battiscombe, Queen Alexandra, 1969 • ... was bidden to listen to brief prayers —Lady Bird Johnson, McCall's, November 1970 Bade is a less frequent past participle: • ... friends were bade farewell —Dartmouth Alumni Mag., May 1954 |
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