购买 (購買)
gòu mǎi
Pinyin

Definition

购买 (購買)
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gòu mǎi
  1. to purchase
  2. to buy

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

买
mǎi
  1. 1 to buy
  2. 2 to purchase
代购
dài gòu
  1. 1 to buy (on behalf of sb)
团购
tuán gòu
  1. 1 group buying
  2. 2 collective buying
  3. 3 buying by a group of individuals who negotiate a discount for the group
导购
dǎo gòu
  1. 1 shopper's guide
  2. 2 shop assistant
  3. 3 sales staff
采购
cǎi gòu
  1. 1 to procure (for an enterprise etc)
  2. 2 to purchase

Idioms (7)

一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴
yī cùn guāng yīn yī cùn jīn , cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn
  1. 1 lit. An interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time. (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. Time is precious and must be treasured.
千金难买
qiān jīn nán mǎi
  1. 1 can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)
博士买驴
bó shì mǎi lǘ
  1. 1 lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point
  2. 2 idiom mocking scholastic pomposity
寸金难买寸光阴
cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn
  1. 1 An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time.
  2. 2 Time is precious.
招兵买马
zhāo bīng mǎi mǎ
  1. 1 to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army
  2. 2 fig. to expand business
  3. 3 to recruit new staff

Sample Sentences

为了维护您的权益，请您在购物结束后，核查您的小票与您所购买的商品是否一致。同时请您查看您所购买的商品是否已拿齐，以免给您增添不必要的麻烦。
wèile wéihù nín de quányì ，qǐng nín zài gòuwù jiéshù hòu ，héchá nín de xiǎopiào yǔ nín suǒ gòumǎi de shāngpǐn shìfǒu yīzhì 。tóngshí qǐng nín chá kàn nín suǒ gòumǎi de shāngpǐn shìfǒu yǐ ná qí ，yǐmiǎn gěi nín zēngtiān bùbìyào de máfan 。
To ensure your rights are protected, after you've made purchases, please check that your receipts match the products you're purchasing. At the same time, please remember to ensure that you've taken all the products you've bought with you to avoid unnecessary hassle.
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喔，听起来不错，至少刷卡没问题，不用再购买外币还款了，出国旅行好像更省心，“说走就走”的旅行好像不再是梦想了。
ō ，tīng qǐlai bùcuò ，zhìshǎo shuākǎ méiwèntí ，bùyòng zài gòumǎi wàibì huánkuǎn le ，chūguó lǚxíng hǎoxiàng gèng shěngxīn ，“shuō zǒu jiù zǒu ”de lǚxíng hǎoxiàng bùzài shì mèngxiǎng le 。
Oh, it sounds good. At least using your credit card is no problem and you don't have to purchase foreign currency to repay it. When people go traveling they have one less thing to worry about. Traveling on a whim seems more realizable now.
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是嘛，我听说，中国向美国波音购买了三百架波音飞机。以后春运应该不会那么拥挤了哈。
shì ma ，wǒ tīngshuō ，Zhōngguó xiàng Měiguó bōyīn gòumǎi le sānbǎi jià bōyīn fēijī 。yǐhòu chūnyùn yīnggāi bùhuì nàme yōngjǐ le hā 。
Yes, I heard. China bought three hundred Boeing planes from the United States. So maybe the great human migration during the Spring Festival won't be so crowded. Ha.
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如今，我们什么都能买到：购买赢得心爱的人的爱情，而又能在爱情褪色、关系不和时，能以最小的代价来终结这种结合的方法；
rújīn ，wǒmen shénme dōu néng mǎi dào ：gòumǎi yíngdé xīnài de rén de àiqíng ，ér yòu néng zài àiqíng tuìsè 、guānxi bùhé shí ，néng yǐzuìxiǎo de dàijià lái zhōngjié zhèzhǒng jiéhé de fāngfǎ ；
Nowadays, we can buy anything, such as buying the love of your beloved, and then you also have a way when love fades and the relationship doesn’t match to end the relationship at the lowest price;
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齐格蒙特.鲍曼的书“流动的现代性”里说到购物已经不只是指购买食物、鞋子、汽车什么的，
qígéméntè .bàomàn de shū “liúdòng de xiàndàixìng ”lǐ shuō dào gòuwù yǐjīng bù zhǐshì zhǐ gòumǎi shíwù 、xiézi 、qìchē shénme de ，
In Zygmunt Bauman’s book “Liquid Modernity,” he states that “shopping is not just about buying food, shoes, cars, or anything, etc...”
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购买那些令人垂涎三尺的食物，和最为有效的能消除吃了它们而引起副作用的减肥方法，购买音量最大的音响和最有疗效的头痛片。
gòumǎi nàxiē lìngrén chuíxiánsānchǐ de shíwù ，hé zuìwéi yǒuxiào de néng xiāochú chī le tāmen ér yǐnqǐ fùzuòyòng de jiǎnféi fāngfǎ ，gòumǎi yīnliàng zuì dà de yīnxiǎng hé zuì yǒu liáoxiào de tóutòng piàn 。
buying those mouth-watering foods, which have the side effects of being the most effective way to lose weight, and buying the loudest speaker together the most effective headache tablets.
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唉，没想到您对免税品成见如此之深，免税品可不只有大牌奢侈品，还有很多物美价廉的好物，购买这些性价比超高免税品，能彰显个人品味不说，还能给生活增添情趣，何乐而不为呢？
ài ，méixiǎngdào nín duì miǎn shuì pǐn chéngjiàn rúcǐ zhī shēn ，miǎn shuì pǐn kě bù zhǐ yǒu dàpái shēchǐpǐn ，háiyǒu hěn duō wùměijiàlián de hǎowù ，gòumǎi zhèxiē xìngjiàbǐ chāo gāo miǎn shuì pǐn ，néng zhāngxiǎn gèrén pǐnwèi bù shuō ，hái néng gěi shēnghuó zēngtiān qíngqù ，hélèérbùwéi ne ？
Ugh, I wouldn't have thought you'd have such deep prejudices towards duty-free shops. Duty-free shops don't just stock big brand luxury goods, there are also many good quality cheap products. Buying these really high quality-price ratio duty-free goods, not only shows individual taste, it also make life more interesting. Why wouldn’t you buy them?
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没错，网购就更稀松平常了，有好多专业平台。大到有可以购买任何种类商品的网络平台比如淘宝，天猫；小到有销售专门种类商品的网络大平台像517黄酒网，我送朋友正宗陈年绍兴、女儿红、花雕都是在那儿买的。
méicuò ，wǎnggòu jiù gèng xīsōngpíngcháng le ，yǒu hǎo duō zhuānyè píngtái 。dà dào yǒu kěyǐ gòumǎi rènhé zhǒnglèi shāngpǐn de wǎngluò píngtái bǐrú Táobǎo ，tiānmāo ；xiǎo dào yǒu xiāoshòu zhuānmén zhǒnglèi shāngpǐn de wǎngluò dà píngtái xiàng 517 huángjiǔ wǎng ，wǒ sòng péngyou zhèngzōng Chénnián shàoxīng 、nǚérhóng 、huādiāo dōu shì zài nàr mǎi de 。
That's right. Online shopping has become a norm. There are so many professional platforms. For more general things, you can buy all kinds of goods on internet platforms, like Taobao and Tmall; For more niche things, there are web platforms selling specialized goods, such as the 517 huangjiu website. When I give my friends authentic vintage Shaoxing huangjiu, nuerhong and huadiao, they're all bought there.
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是，也不是，简单地说，黄金本身的价值是不太改变的，但是货币的价值、人们购买的意愿和黄金的产量却会不断改变所谓的“金价”，也就是黄金的“价钱”。
shì ，yě bù shì ，jiǎndān de shuō ，huángjīn běnshēn de jiàzhí shì bùtài gǎibiàn de ，dànshì huòbì de jiàzhí 、rénmen gòumǎi de yìyuàn hé huángjīn de chǎnliàng què huì búduàn gǎibiàn suǒwèi de “jīn jià ”，yějiùshì huángjīn de “jiàqian ”。
It is and it isn't. To put it simply, gold's value doesn't really change that much, but the value of currencies, people's willingness to buy gold and the production volume of gold continually affect gold prices, or the price of gold.
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我觉得除了购买交强险和车船税，像第三者责任险、划痕险、涉水险，您都是非常需要的。
wǒ juéde chúle gòumǎi jiāoqiángxiǎn hé chēchuánshuì ，xiàng dìsānzhězérènxiǎn 、huáhénxiǎn 、shèshuǐxiǎn ，nín dōu shì fēicháng xūyào de 。
I think that besides purchasing mandatory car insurance and vehicle and vessel tax, you also really need third-party liability insurance, collision, and water damage insurance.
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