| 单词 | negotiate |
| 释义 | negotiate (nɪgoʊʃieɪt ) Word forms: negotiates , negotiating , negotiated 1. verb If people negotiate with each other or negotiate an agreement, they talk about a problem or a situation such as a business arrangement in order to solve the problem or complete the arrangement. It is not clear whether the president is willing to negotiate with the democrats. [VERB + with] When you have two adversaries negotiating, you need to be on neutral territory. [VERB] The local government and the army negotiated a truce. [VERB noun] Western governments have this week urged him to negotiate and avoid force. [VERB] He has bravely negotiated an end to the country's civil war. [VERB noun] His publishing house had just begun negotiating for her next books. [VERB + for] There were reports that three companies were negotiating to market the drug. [VERB to-infinitive] Synonyms: arrange, manage, settle, work out 2. verb If you negotiate an area of land, a place, or an obstacle, you successfully travel across it or around it. Frank Mariano negotiates the desert terrain in his battered pickup. [VERB noun] I negotiated the corner on my motorbike and pulled to a stop. [VERB noun] I negotiated my way out of the airport and joined the flow of cars. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] Synonyms: get round, clear, pass, cross Collocations: negotiate a curve He failed to negotiate a curve and had a terrible accident. Christianity Today But, as he showed yesterday, if he can negotiate the curve within touching distance of his rivals, he can run them down on the straight. Times, Sunday Times Ships failing to negotiate the curve, on at least a couple of occasions, collided with the western approach span. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the extreme this results in the train entering a curve at a speed at which it can not negotiate the curve, and gross derailment takes place. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some truckers have had trouble negotiating the curve in inclement weather. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One of them will surely come forward as the buyer - or at least try to negotiate the price down. Times, Sunday Times Indeed, should a new owner fall in love with the look, they will have to negotiate a price for the furniture and sculpture. Times, Sunday Times You can afford to be fussy when you are looking at second-hand examples and negotiate a price reduction if repairs or refurbishment are needed. Times, Sunday Times They were arrested by undercover police when they contacted a representative of the duke to negotiate a price for its return. Times, Sunday Times The only thing to do was flag down any old car in the street and negotiate a price with the driver. Times, Sunday Times If they demurred, he spoke to their agents after their death seeking to negotiate a purchase. Times, Sunday Times Instead, he hoped that the right to negotiate the purchase should be made through an open and fair bidding process. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After several years of negotiations where the club attempted to negotiate the purchase of its space, the co-op board listed the club's space for sale as a private residence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 My son negotiated the purchase of a house, which was partially complete, from a housebuilder. Times, Sunday Times The programme of land acquisition accelerated after 1951, and by 1957 the government had negotiated the purchase of most of the land it had targeted. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We only charge a fee if we negotiate a reduction in the price. The Sun If you feel you have been charged unfairly, contact your card issuer and try to negotiate a reduction. Times, Sunday Times You could also try to negotiate a reduction in the purchase price to account for it (but you won't know what the cost will be). Times, Sunday Times As a result of the persistence of her parents she negotiated a reduction in rent, the repainting of the property and the installation of dehumidifiers. Times, Sunday Times They insisted that, even if covenants were breached, the hotel would be able to negotiate a resolution with the banks. Times, Sunday Times Industry and government have, to date, not been able to negotiate a resolution. Globe and Mail Bent had been doing much to negotiate a resolution to the inter-tribal disputes, as well as raids on settlers and traders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A ceasefire was declared that afternoon, although it would take the navy and the army a full week to negotiate a resolution to the crisis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bent worked to negotiate a resolution to the inter-tribal disputes, and to end their raids on settlers and traders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 How can a banker negotiate his salary for a year and then add a 'bonus' on top of it? The Sun With students being offered an internship between years one and two, they need to negotiate a salary. Times, Sunday Times The idea of negotiating your salary hadn't occurred to me. Times, Sunday Times Furthermore, the changes also mention the fact that diseases should be treated with local, generic medicine rather than expensive treatments and that doctors will be able to negotiate their salary. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And that applies whether you're negotiating a salary change or trying to draw up a divorce agreement. The Sun Fathers would negotiate the sale of the harvest with the next link in the chain. Times, Sunday Times Their campaign for stewarding the site as permanent public space had helped to generate the political capital necessary to negotiate a sale on their terms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a guideline to that 'right price', he recently negotiated a sale for $1.8m. Times, Sunday Times It will want to know who negotiated the sale and the precise details surrounding who benefited. Times, Sunday Times While he raves about her being a chain-free cash buyer, she studies his profile and imagines that his long eyelashes come in handy negotiating a sale. Times, Sunday Times If you want to change your playing personnel, you will have to negotiate a transfer with another manager or sign an out-of-contract player. Times, Sunday Times And if your team need freshening up, you can wheel and deal, signing a free agent or contacting rival managers to negotiate a transfer. Times, Sunday Times The ex-staffer said the player had been suing his then agent for negotiating a transfer to the club that offered the highest agent's fee. Times,Sunday Times And even if we could, negotiating the transfer after this event would take a great deal of time, time we don't feel we have. Times, Sunday Times Monarchy has managed to negotiate the transition from divine to secular by sublimating a longing to belong. Times, Sunday Times The college, too, had no difficulty negotiating the transition to the more meritocratic world of the post-war era. The Times Literary Supplement The 1980s were a momentous decade not only for computing, but also for the typographic industry, as pioneering designers negotiated the transition from analogue to digital type. The Times Literary Supplement Experts believe that his words could signal that negotiations may begin imminently because it would take a year to negotiate a treaty and another year to ratify it. Times, Sunday Times In 1171, he was at the latter city to negotiate a treaty forming a common army. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Parliament has never in modern times negotiated a treaty. Times, Sunday Times A century ago, they negotiated treaties, entertained monarchs, debriefed spies and rallied the morale of isolated compatriots in dusty corners of the world. Times, Sunday Times In this capacity, they would help negotiate treaties and clear titles to land. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While he waited, the papal legate went back and forth, trying to negotiate a truce between the leaders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He swiftly negotiated a truce with those groups and initiated peace talks. Times, Sunday Times That same evening, one of the militia groups sent a representative who negotiated a truce with the settlers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The company negotiated a truce between the two warring tribes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After some arguments, the two kings negotiated a truce and retreated without fighting, leaving the underlying issues unresolved. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Visitors to his office had to negotiate an obstacle course of furniture on approaching his desk, the better to dissipate the frigidity that came in with them. Times, Sunday Times This preliminary round saw competitors having to negotiate an obstacle course with the goal of reaching an end zone. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Drivers are scored on how quickly they can negotiate the obstacle, and must find the fastest route through each. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The sport involves traversing rock faces, negotiating obstacles and swimming round the coastline. Times, Sunday Times Junior's 'brain' can now receive images, which look like a real-time video game, and image-recognition software enables it to recognise and obey traffic lights and negotiate obstacles. Times, Sunday Times When he arrived to negotiate peace for his people, he was seized and imprisoned. Globe and Mail Together they hope to negotiate peace in the region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He proposed that an embassy should negotiate peace. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In special circumstances he could declare war and negotiate peace. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even if reunification should prove impossible, he wanted to negotiate peace from a position of strength. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As in any patient situation, you have to negotiate terms - some practitioners will operate online pro bono; others will expect a fee. Times, Sunday Times Well-funded scaremongering would have you believe that providing the legal tools for companies to negotiate terms of use of their content will break the internet. Times, Sunday Times When their leaders sought to negotiate terms, they were refused. Times, Sunday Times I negotiate terms with our suppliers, set retail prices, plan promotions and launch new products. Times, Sunday Times Many have sought to negotiate terms, particularly for their families. Times, Sunday Times Diplomats had tried and failed to negotiate their release without paying the money. Times, Sunday Times They would use it to negotiate their release, then be picked up by a getaway car. The Sun The rebels have been holding some 40 high-profile hostages in the jungle and had been hoping to negotiate the release of some 500 of its jailed fighters. Times, Sunday Times He was able to negotiate his release. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He chose to be buried in the convent in gratitude for the role its members played in negotiating his release. Times, Sunday Times They assumed he was a vital negotiating partner amid an outburst of intractable and ancient ethnic hatreds. Times, Sunday Times It breaks a taboo and should be treated as the act of a pariah state, not a potential negotiating partner, by the international community. Times, Sunday Times The players wanted to reach a fair agreement but never had a negotiating partner to work with,'' he said. canada.com The fairer the offer, the less probable a refusal by the negotiating partner. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The negotiating partner could subsequently accept or decline the offer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Both teams have contingency plans for negotiating sessions to be held by video conference, particularly if cases of infection within the teams arise. Times,Sunday Times No new negotiating sessions have been scheduled, he said. Houston Chronicle The foreign secretary nowadays just carries the papers and whispers discreet advice during negotiating sessions. Times, Sunday Times Once-a-month, 30-minute negotiating sessions were held. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was then that he honed his uncompromising negotiating stance. Times, Sunday Times Hardliners have enough clout inside the government and enough support within the parliamentary party to press for a bold negotiating stance. Times, Sunday Times It would be a humiliating rejection of her negotiating stance. Times, Sunday Times The company took a swipe at the union's negotiating stance, which it believes belongs to a different era. Times, Sunday Times A leaked internal email suggested that it had no intention of changing its negotiating stance on the cuts to pensions it has proposed. Times, Sunday Times After the third series, they operated an all-for-one and one-for-all negotiating strategy that eventually saw them being paid $1m each an episode. Times, Sunday Times As we brainstormed the work/life balance issue, he started to develop a negotiating strategy. Times, Sunday Times The negotiating strategy has to be properly designed, with serious consultation. The Sun Don't lose your temper (except deliberately, as part of a negotiating strategy). Times, Sunday Times It should change not only the negotiating team but also the whole negotiating strategy. Times, Sunday Times It will remain a negotiating tool in trade negotiations to prevent talks stalling. Times,Sunday Times It's tempting to use a letter of resignation as a negotiating tool. Christianity Today You can use this as a negotiating tool. Times, Sunday Times These were compiled into reports either to be used in court to establish whether the bill was fair, or employed as a negotiating tool to help reach outof-court settlements. Times, Sunday Times Silence was a powerful negotiating tool for him. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 商议 Japanese: 交渉する |
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