biddingbid•ding /'bɪdɪŋ/

n U

1. (拍卖时的)出价购买；竞价过程

• The bidding was brisk and sales went well. 竞价过程很短暂，拍卖很顺利。

2. 召唤，邀请

3. 命令；要求

• At the bidding of his father, he wrote to his lawyer. 应父亲的要求，他给自己的律师写了信。

词组at sb.'s bidding 正式 按某人的吩咐，应某人之请

• Whatever she did,she did at her mother's bidding. 她做什么都是听她母亲的。

do sb.'s bidding 正式 服从某人；为某人效劳