1·Britain's towns, it is true, are not prevented from applying, but they generally lack the resources to put together a bid to beat their bigger competitors.
诚然，英国的城镇也可以申请，但它们通常缺乏资源，无法联合起来以努力击败规模更大的竞争对手。
2·The scientists next put the volunteers in a brain scanner and had them bid up to five dollars a time for food and other objects, such as baseball caps and T-shirts, that flashed up on a screen.
接下来，科学家们会对志愿者的大脑活动进行观测，让他们对闪现在屏幕上的食物和其他物品（例如棒球帽和T恤）进行5美元一次的出价。
3·Biogen Idec put itself up for sale last year, but the recalcitrant management found clever ways to make the bidding process so onerous and unattractive that nobody made a bid for it.
Biogen Idec公司去年整体待售，但是顽强而精明的管理层想尽办法让竞价过程变得无比乏味，令人望而却步，最后竟无人出价。
4·It had therefore put in a somewhat hasty bid that it expected to have a chance to improve before the contract was formally awarded.
从而使其作出一个草率的投标方案，因为它预计在合同被正式授予之前还有改善的机会。
5·Firms with excess computing capacity, such as data centres, put it up for sale.Others, which have a short-term need for some number-crunching, can bid for it.
诸如数据中心之类的公司将额外的计算能力拿来出售。其它对特大数量的数字计算有短期需求的公司可以来竞标。
6·If they bid up the price higher than the market can bear, oil stockpiles will increase, which in turn will put downward pressure on prices.
如果他们抬高的价格超过市场的承受能力，石油储备量就会增加，反过来价格的下行压力也会增加。
7·Besides from raising two toddlers (a task that requires enormous amounts of patience), we were waiting for an answer about the house that we'd put a bid on.
除了要养育两个婴孩(一项需要付出巨大耐心的任务)，还要等候那所已经预订了的房子的消息。
8·No bid has, as yet, been put forward for the England Under-21 international.
现在英国还没有对于21岁以下球员国际转会的限制。
9·But observers say the chances that Ukraine and Georgia, which has also put in a bid, will win approval in Bucharest are slim.
但是观察家认为，乌克兰与格鲁吉亚能够在布加勒斯特得到加入许可的机会微乎其微。
10·My family is temporarily living with my in-laws while we are waiting on an answer about a house that we've put a bid on (it's a short sale, so it takes a looooooong time to hear an answer).
我们等着关于我们承包的一座房子的回复，因为它是卖空交易，所以要很长很长很长的时间，于是我的一家暂时和我的岳母岳父住一起。