bidding
noun /ˈbɪdɪŋ/
/ˈbɪdɪŋ/
[uncountable]- the act of offering prices, especially at an auction
（尤指拍卖中的）出价，喊价 - There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers.
私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。 - Several companies remained in the bidding.
有几家公司仍在竞价。 - A bidding war for the textile firm erupted.
纺织公司的投标战爆发了。
- There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers.
- the act of offering to do something or to provide something for a particular price
投标 - competitive bidding for the contract
这一合同的竞标
- competitive bidding for the contract
- (in some card games
某些牌戏中 叫牌 - (old-fashioned or formal) what somebody asks or orders you to do
请求；吩咐；命令 - to do somebody’s bidding (= to obey somebody)
服从某人 - At his father’s bidding (= because his father asked him to) he wrote to his lawyer.
他遵照父亲的吩咐给律师写信。
- to do somebody’s bidding (= to obey somebody)