英:['baʊten]
美:['baʊten]
英:['baʊten]
美:['baʊten]
Adjective
1. purchased; not homemade;
"my boughten clothes"
"a store-bought dress"
"buy"的不规则过去分词,作为形容词出现于1793年,尤其在美国口语中,指的是衣物和其他物品,与"made"相对。
BOUGHTEN。就是买来的。这是新英格兰和纽约内陆地区常用的词语。它用来区分从商店购买的物品和家庭制造的类似物品。[巴特利特,《美国俚语词典》,1848年]
bought + -en (as in forgotten)
The first known use of boughten was in 1738
1 He slowly raised his hand and set his right index finger upon the toupee and scratched meditatively through the mesh—scratched carefully, having accustomed himself to handling his boughten hair with cautious touch.
2 Here was a girl who had not even a single “boughten” dollie.
3 She mints her boughten wealth, and later on They meet again.
4 "Laddie and I have only got boughten bow-arrows, and the arrows don't fly very good."
5 The home-made candles and decorations were pronounced to be as good as the "boughten ones."
6 They was boughten socks from Mrs. Carslake's shop of all sorts.
7 "A boughten slave?" asked I; but, "Nay, so heaven forfend!" quoth it.
8 "This is a home-made carpet; that a 'boughten' one," i.e., one bought at a shop.
9 Half a dozen straight-back chairs, also "boughten," were disposed stiffly against the walls.
10 My first 'boughten' jacket was an olive green broadcloth,—a remnant which was bought cheap because it was a remnant.
11 And down he sets—six weeks, i jing! and knits that seine plum done— Made corks too, brails and ever'thing—good as a boughten one!
12 It was evidently a "boughten" gift, then; the last had been a water pitcher, much needed in the household.
13 "Young ladies are not wont to take from their bosoms a boughten trinket, and slyly kiss it a hundred times a day, and—" "Grace, Grace!" cried Kate, attempting to stop her saucy speech.
14 Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all. Provide, provide!
最好是庄严地从你这里结束,这段买来的友谊,这比什么都没有要好,给予,给予!
15 Well, Mrs. Hatch called up the next night and says Jim had the tickets boughten and we was to be sure and be ready at seven o'clock Friday night because the show started at eight.
16 The suit which I had grown into—"the Potsdam clothes," we called them often, but more often "the boughten clothes"—had been grown out of and left behind in a way of speaking.
17 Likely," answered Dorothy, "but I am anxious to get the tree, and if we do not get it before the storm comes we will have to take a boughten one.
18 A "sure 'nough" fishhook took the place of the bent pin and a real "boughten" line, with a sinker, was tied to the hook though he still used the slender willow rods.
19 I am sure I never went cold or hungry although I never had a boughten plaything or any of those delicacies which are more necessary to children than necessities.
20 The careful woman bustled away and laid out her son’s Sabbath suit and his boughten shoes and, tired as Enoch was, he rode away toward Bennington an hour after reaching the ox-bow farm.
1 购进的
2 非自己家里制作的
3 现成的
ready-made store-bought made-up ready-to-wear reach-me-down off the shelf off the peg forthcoming
4 买来的