關於Auction的意思和用法的提問

A: When you sell something you decide a price and sell it for that price.

When you auction something, you set a minimum price and then let people ‘bid’ (compete) and say higher prices they are willing to pay for the object. The person who states the highest price wins. This is often how fine art and antiques are sold because they don’t have a standard price - they are worth what a buyer will pay.

When something is ‘auctioned off’ it is sold by auction.

Ebay began as an auction website.

A: A place where historical or rare items are sold and the person with the will to buy that item with the highest amount of money compared to others, buys it.

A: It's an event where there is a barter of price for an item, and people make a higher offer than each other and they sell the item for the highest bid (offer)

A: I bought this at an auction: Eu comprei isso em um leilão (hasta pública, lota)

A: The name brand bag was being auctioned off.

A: Yes. I think in that case it would be that the auctioneer would auction something.

It may also just be that adding 'off' is a language shift that doesn't change the meaning and is just one of those slang formats.

A: An auction is where one sells something. To auction off is to sell that something.

i.e. We are going to the auction to auction off our antiques.

A: An auction is an event where people bid (against eachother) on items.

A: "I work for Yahoo! Auctions. I do product displays, research, price adjustments, and so forth."
これは直訳で自然に聞こえないことはない (少し硬く聞こえてしまう) ですけど、もう少し自然に言うと、
"I work for Yahoo! Auctions, and I do product displays, research, price adjustments, and so forth."
になりますね。
こういう場合は２つの文章を１つにした方が自然に聞こえます。

A: 請到提問詳情頁確認

A: ‪I usually use an auction service to get something, and I tried to use it this time to sell a book that I never read. This is my first time so I'm worried whether someone will buy it or not.

A: This auction is only domestic shipment.

A: This is a Japanese auction so you should speak Japanese.

A: Try this instead:

A: Well first of all since it's a question the order should be like this: Are you (go) to the auction tomorrow. And both make sense. Are you going to the auction tomorrow? Or Are you going to go to the auction tomorrow?😊