underbid

verb

1. 投标出价低于（竞争对手）
   to make a lower bid than sb else, for example when trying to win a contract

1. It is driven by collectors rather than dealers, who stockpile or underbid simply to push up prices.
   这是由收藏家而非商人掌握的市场。商人们单纯地囤积居奇以哄抬画价。
2. The loan follows years of foreign investor concern, particularly from the US and Europe, that they are underbid by Chinese companies prepared to cut corners in social and environmental standards to win contracts, particularly in the oil, gas and mining industries.
   多年来，外国（尤其是美国和欧洲）投资者担心，自己竞争不过那些准备在社会和环保标准上打折扣以赢得合同的中国公司，尤其是石油、天然气和采矿业的合同。
3. With this pool of slave labor, you can underbid any contractor in town.
   有这些劳工，你可比这镇上的承包商出更低价。
4. The manufacturers appear to have underbid the contracts by a wider margin than usual.
   厂家对合同投的标似乎较一般低得太多。
5. I flatter myself the beasts that perish could not underbid that, as a low form of consciousness.
   我自认为，会毁灭的兽类是不可能以更便宜的方式获得那种低级的意识形式的。
6. The crystal grain is the near future on international to the traditional material promotion and one of creation new alloys underbid craft methods.
   晶粒细化是近期国际上对传统材料升级和创造新型合金的工艺手段之一。

verb

1. bid too low

2. bid lower than a competing bidder

3. bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants