bid: [OE] Bid has a complicated history, for it comes from what were originally two completely distinct Old English verbs. The main one was biddan (past tense b?d) ‘a(chǎn)sk, demand’, from which we get such modern English usages as ‘I bade him come in’. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *bithjan (source of German bitten ‘a(chǎn)sk’), which was formed from the base *beth- (from which modern English gets bead).
But a contribution to the present nexus of meanings was also made by Old English bēodan (past tense bēad) ‘offer, proclaim’ (whence ‘bid at an auction’ and so on). This can be traced ultimately to an Indo- European base *bh(e)udh-, which gave Germanic *buth-, source also of German bieten ‘offer’ and perhaps of English beadle [13], originally ‘one who proclaims’. => bead, beadle
bid (v.)
probably an early Middle English mutual influence or confusion of two old words: The sense in bid farewell is from Old English biddan "to ask, entreat, beg, pray, beseech; order" (class V strong verb, past tense b?d, past participle beden), from Proto-Germanic *bidjan "to pray, entreat" (source also of German bitten "to ask," attested in Old High German from 8c., also Old Saxon bidjan, Old Frisian bidda, Old Norse bieja, Gothic bidjan). This, 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," Old High German biatan, also Old Saxon biodan, Old Frisian biada, Old Norse bjoea, Gothic anabiudan "to command"). This is from PIE root *bheudh- "to be aware, make aware" (see bode (v.)). As a noun, 1788, from the verb.
雙語例句
1. He certainly wasn't going to bid $18 billion for this company.
他肯定不會(huì)出180億美元來收購這家公司。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Speculation centred on a likely bid price of 380p a share.
大多數(shù)人猜測買方出價(jià)可能為每股380便士。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Hanson made an agreed takeover bid of ￡351 million.
漢森按協(xié)商出價(jià)3.51億英鎊接管該公司。
來自柯林斯例句
4. They agreed to bid the picture up to 4,500 francs.
他們同意將這幅畫的價(jià)格提至4,500法郎。
來自柯林斯例句
5. He has submitted a bid to resuscitate the struggling magazine.