horsetrading
基本解释
- n.讨价还价; 手段精明交易
英汉例句
- After both chambers pass bills, the two get together for horsetrading to produce a common bill.
如果参众两院要让立法通过的话，这两派需要艰苦的谈判来制定一个能普遍接受的法案。 - Even talks that do not produce a breakthrough can permit useful horsetrading of the sort that makes a conflict a little bit safer.
即便对话没有产生突破，也应该允许能发挥作用的非观官方对话，这样也能使冲突较为安全。 - If this gloomier theory is right, the best that talking will achieve is not a breakthrough but some horsetrading on the side.
如果这个令人不安的理论是正确的，那么对话所能取得的最好成果不是什么突破而是另外促成有成效的会谈。