| 词组 | bargain |
| 释义 | bargain The verb bargain, says Raub 1897, takes with a person, for a thing. Since 1897 a few prepositions have joined this pair, as the following examples show. With a person or group of persons: • The employer must not bargain with any group other than the one which has gained the majority vote — Horace Kidger & William E. Dunwiddie, Problems Facing America and You, 1959 • Judges bargain about reality with defendants — Trans-Action, March 1970 With may also be used with something considered as a helpful tool: • I didn't have much to bargain with when they presented me with my 1965 figures at contract time — baseball player quoted in Sporting News, 26 Mar. 1966 For something: • We had to bargain for everything, live on a shoestring —Lenora Slaughter, quoted in Ladies' Home Jour., September 1971 • All you bargained for was a little music —Howard Taubman, N. Y. Times Mag., 14 Mar. 1954 • The Wise Youth had not bargained for personal servitude —George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Fever el, 1859 About or on something or some subject: • ... right to organize into unions and to bargain about wages —Marshall Smelser & Harry W. Kir-win, Conceived in Liberty, 1955 • It ruled unanimously that management must bargain on pensions —Time, 4 Oct. 1948 To can also be used, when bargain is transitive: • ... the right to bargain his services to the highest bidder —Springfield (Mass.) Daily News, 26 May 1953 Bargain may also be used with a number of handy little adverbs. A sample: • We bargained out our differences —Wall Street Jour., 19 May 1955 • ... unwilling to bargain away the twelve West German divisions —Time, 8 May 1954 • ... you can sometimes bargain the price down — Izak Haber, Rolling Stone, 8 June 1972 |
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