/bɪd ||; bɪd/noun[C] 1 a bid (for sth);a bid (to do sth) an effort to do, obtain, etc sth; an attempt 争取；力求获得；试图: His bid for freedom had failed. 他争取自由的努力失败了。Tonight the Ethiopian athlete will make a bid to break the world record. 今晚，那位埃塞俄比亚运动员要试图打破世界纪录。
2 an offer by a person or a business company to pay a certain amount of money for sth 出价: Granada mounted a hostile takeover bid (= when one company tries to buy another company) for Forte. 格拉纳达公司提出敌意收购建议，要买下福尔特公司。At the auction we made a bid of £100 for the chair. 在拍卖会上，我们出价100英镑买那张椅子。
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especially US 尤为美) =
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➔bidder noun [C]:The house was sold to the highest bidder (= the person who offered the most money). 那幢房子卖给了那个出价最高的人。