horse-trade
基本解释
- n.讨价还价；精明的谈判
英汉例句
- Party leaders went around for months making horse trades to get support for their candidate.
政党领袖们数日以来四处奔走，讨价还价，以取得人们对该党候选人的支持。 - It was a horse trade in which the the owner of the worse animal gave a rifle to make the trade equal.
这是一项马匹交易，在交易中劣马的马主附送了一支步枪，使交易公平。 - Expect grumbling and months of horse trading as recommendations are turned into legally binding directives.
预料中的抱怨和几个月来的讨价还价被具有法律约束性的指令所代替。 - New emissions-reduction technology is sexier, but old-fashioned horse trading might just be more effective.
新的减排技术更具吸引力，但过时的讨价还价交易则可能更有效。 - After four years of horse trading and compromise in the grand coalition, the identities of both the main parties had been blurred and many of their voters were disenchanted.
在大联合中进行交易和妥协的四年后，这两个主要政党身份变得模糊，而且他们的很多选民不再抱有幻想。