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Haggle V 讨价还价 Hægl 英 讨价还价(To Argue Price

单词 haggle
音标 ['hægl]
解释 v. 讨价还价
红宝书 【英】 v. 讨价还价(to argue about price; bargain)
【例】 haggle over prices
字源 haggle (v.)
1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of haggen "to chop" (see hack (v.1)). Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away. Related: Haggled; haggling.
不择手段背单词 v. 讨价还价 = bargain
【记】读: 海狗, 现在市面上有一种礼品《北极参海狗油》巨贵无比, 需要讨价还价.
趣味全助记 【记】音: 挥镐,挥镐就砍,砍价;hack 砍 + wrangle 争论→砍价
【相关】hackle 乱砍,乱劈

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