プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
かう【買う】
&fRoman1;〔購入する〕buy, purchase（▼形式ばった語）
オレンジを１個200円で買う
buy oranges at two hundred yen apiece
セーターを9,000円で買った
I bought [got] a sweater for nine thousand yen.
これをいくらで買ったのか［いくらなら買うのか］
How much did [would] you pay for this?
ワインを買って来てください
Please go get a bottle of wine.
あの店で安く花を買った
I bought flowers cheap(ly) at that store.
このテレビは高く買った
I paid too much for this TV set.
めいに本を買ってやった
I bought [got] a book for my niece.
昨日銀座へ買い物に行った
I went shopping in the Ginza yesterday.
愛情は金で買えない
Money cannot buy love.／Love cannot be bought with money.
&fRoman2;
❶〔招く〕incur
何気なく言ったことが彼の反感を買った
My chance remark aroused his antagonism.
彼女の歓心を買うためなら何でもやっただろう
He would have done anything to win her favor.
彼の答弁は一同の失笑を買った
His answer made everyone burst into laughter.
❷〔進んでする〕
売られたけんかを買う
accept [take up] a challenge (to a fight)
計画実行のために一役買って出た
He offered 「his services [to help] in carrying out the plan.
❸〔認める〕
彼の努力は買ってやらねばならない
We must give him credit for his effort.
批評家たちは彼の作品を高く買っている
Critics 「think highly [have a high opinion] of his works.
語学力を買われて国際部に回された
They sent him to the international division because they 「thought highly of his linguistic ability [evaluated his linguistic ability highly].