bid up

基本解释

Two lots of Ming ware in a recent sale at Doyle, a small New York auctioneer, were wildly bid up, one of them to over 180 times its high estimate.
一家纽约小拍卖商道尔拍卖行近期拍卖了两件明代瓷器，竞标者疯狂哄抬价格，其中一件卖价超过其高估价的180倍。
Investors even bid up shares of the troubled automaker General Motors, which said its need for more billions in federal aid was not as imminent as earlier thought.
即便通用汽车曾表示其所需追加的数百万联邦补助并未如早期所想的那样到帐，投资者们仍然估高动荡的汽车制造商通用汽车公司的股价。
These speculators exacerbated the fluctuations in prices since they helped bid up oil prices further when they were high, and helped lower them further when these prices were low.
这些投机客加剧了价格的波动，因为他们通过竞价拉升了本就处于高位的价格，并在这些价格处于低位的时候进一步降低了价格。

Over the past five years the best existing stuff has been bid up too high.
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Usually small companies' stocks get bid up on hopes that they'll be big winners.
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This does not allow for a labor market where workers can have their wages bid up.
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