A man to-day buys a ready-made shirt for fifty cents, which fifty years ago would have cost him $2. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
Mr. Brocklehurst buys all our food and all our clothes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
The man buys it, of course, and finds nothing in it. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
You can't tell what you're smoking in one of these new houses--likely as not the CHEF buys the cigars. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Speculators buys 'em up cheap, when they's little, and gets 'em raised for market. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The man who buys, does not always mean to sell again, but frequently to use or to consume; whereas he who sells always means to buy again. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Constructive business has no end of reactionary moments----the most striking, perhaps, is when it buys up patents in order to suppress them. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
My papa can buy you, said Eva, quickly; and if he buys you, you will have good times. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
In years of scarcity, therefore, the corn merchant buys a great part of his corn for the ordinary price, and sells it for a much higher. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Nobody buys it but in order to sell it again; and with regard to it there is, in ordinary cases, no last purchaser or consumer. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The queen buys him of his master the farmer, and presents him to the king. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
When it is done I will take it away with me, and the same person will buy it who buys all that I do. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
My own money buys me nothing but an uneasy conscience. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Buys new wooden legs now, and drinks nothing but water and weak tea. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
Some buys up these yer old critturs, and ses there's a sight more wear in 'em than a body 'd think, said the man, reflectively. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.