buying up

基本解释

Some hedge-fund investors foresaw problems for nations like Greece and spent the last year buying up credit-default swaps on debt issued by such governments.
一些对冲基金投资者预见到希腊等国的问题，去年购买了这些国家的政府所发行债券的信用违约掉期产品。
But taxi drivers grumble that they face more competition; some Cubans say there is less bread in the shops since private pizza-makers started buying up flour.
但是出租车司机却抱怨竞争越来越激烈。一些哈瓦那人说由于皮萨店买光了面粉，一些店铺缺少面包卖。
On the demand side, the Federal Reserve held down mortgage rates by buying up mortgage-backed securities, while Congress offered a generous tax credit to qualifying buyers.
在需求方面，美联储通过购买按揭证券压低住房抵押贷款的利率，同时国会慷慨地为具有资格的买家提供税收减免。

The Bank of England began a similar program of buying up government bonds earlier this week.
To become the biggest publishing monolith in the world, it takes maybe a hundred years, so his father in Australia started buying up newspapers.
要成为出版业内最大的垄断商,也许要花一百年,他的父亲在澳大利亚,就开始收购各类报纸
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And then they ended up buying out their contract and touring themselves around.
然后他们结束了合同，并自己去巡演。
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The state has also been buying up water rights in order to close down wells.
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