英语释义

1. negotiation accompanied by shrewd bargaining and reciprocal concessions
a political horse trade

2. a clever and often secret agreement made by powerful people who are usually trying to get an advantage over others

片语

argy-bargy讨价还价；议论；争吵

bargaining讨价还价；交易（bargain的ing形式）

英汉例句

• Even if Israel, the Palestinians, Lebanon and Syria were to start horse-trading in earnest, that would still leave the more intractable problems of Iraq and Iran.

  即便以色列、巴勒斯坦、黎巴嫩以及叙利亚都準备认真地讨价还价，也还存在着更难处理的伊拉克和伊朗问题。

• Few think that France and other doubters will actually block Estonia「s bid; persuasion and horse-trading will probably bring agreement.

  没几个人相信法国和其他持怀疑态度的国家会真的阻拦爱沙尼亚的申请；说服劝解和讨价还价或许会达成一致。

• Jimmy Carter reacted against Richard Nixon」s ruthlessness and Lyndon B. Johnson「s horse-trading by becoming both too nice and too disdainful of congressional politics.

  为了纠正理查德·尼克松的残忍无情和林顿·约翰逊的讨价还价，吉米·卡特变得过于善良，对国会政治过于轻蔑。

• Just as likely, the President will be chosen in a horse-trading marathon in 2009, which will also pick a head of the European Commission (roughly, the EU」s bureaucracy) and a new foreign-policy chief.

  很可能，主席将经过马拉松式的讨价还价在2009年才能产生。同时，也将产生欧洲委员会(基本上是欧盟的官僚机构)的头头和一位新的外交长官。

• On the face of it, this horse-trading is odd (though stitch-ups of the parliamentary presidency are quite normal).

  面对这种情况时，讨价还价是很少见的（尽管对议会主席的缝缝补补现象很普通）。

• After 18 months of lobbying, horse-trading and analysis, the white smoke will emerge and the hosts for the competitions in 2018 and 2022 will be named.

  经过18个月的游说、协商、分析后，将会风波四起，确定提名竞争申办2018年和2022年世界杯的国家。

• Agreement was reached only after several days of horse-trading that caused dramatic scenes in the Capitol as Obama and his top staff urged the Senate to move the legislation forward.

  这项议案是刚刚达成共识的，期间还发生了戏剧性的一幕，几天的讨价还价导致奥巴马和他的首席幕僚在国会大厦催促参议院迅速推进相关立法。

• It has promised to stay in its barracks. But a close result and the ensuing horse-trading might tempt it to meddle again-especially if it looks as if Mr Thaksin is on his way back.

  但现在军方已经承诺将安分守己，不干预政事，但是即将产生的结果和之后的讨价还价可能会使其尝试再次介入政坛，特别是在他信先生看起来将要重回泰国执掌大权的情况之下。

• But a close result and the ensuing horse-trading might tempt it to meddle again-especially if it looks as if Mr Thaksin is on his way back.

  但是最近的结果以及确保精明的交易的决定将会使军队再次介入- - -尤其是目前的形势是他信似乎将要重返政坛。

• AFTER long days of discussions, disagreements, threats to leave and horse-trading the Copenhagen climate talks are set to end on Friday December 18th.

  经过长时间的讨论，分歧，威胁离会和讨价还价，哥本哈根气候峰会谈判将于本月18日，周五结束。

• Nonetheless, the current debate provides a good indication of the sort of horse-trading that will be needed to push a bill through in future.

  无论如何，现在的争论都表现出了一个好的讨价还价的迹象，这是推动将来通过这一法案所必需的。

• This will be done in a horse-trading exercise known as 「conference」.

  而这将通过双方进行讨价还价的活动，即人所共知的「会议」来解决。

• No party or alliance clearly won the election held three months ago, so a period of horse-trading was inevitable.

  三个月前的选举中，没有哪个政党或政党联盟明显胜出，所以一段时期的讨价还价亦在情理之中。

• Of course, neither will deliver precisely what he promises thanks to the constraints of deficits, congressional horse-trading and the flow of unexpected events.

  当然因为有赤字问题，国会交易和其他不确定性事件的制约，两人都不可能明确承诺什么。