haggle

C1 FREQ #29027 ★☆☆☆☆

vi. 争论, 杀价 vt. 乱砍, 乱劈 n. 杀价, 讨论, 争论

发音

UK /ˈhæɡəl/
US /ˈhæɡəl/
AU

词形变化

haggled haggles 三单 haggles haggling haggling 现在分词 haggled 过去式 haggled 过去分词

释义与例句

v. C1
  1. 1.

    To hack (cut crudely)

    及物
  2. 2.

    To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

    June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

  3. 3.

    To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.

    讨价还价

    计较

    杀价

    不及物

    I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 3

chaffer higgle huckster

上位词 2

bargain dicker

下位词 1

beat down

词源

1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.

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