haggle
verb [intransitive, transitive]to argue with somebody in order to reach an agreement, especially about the price of something 爭論;(尤指)講價 - haggle over/about something
I left him in the market haggling over the price of a shirt. 我扔下他自己在市場上就一件襯衫討價還價。 - haggle with somebody over/about something
We spent a long time haggling with the authorities over our visas. 我們花了很長時間與當局就我們的簽證討價還價。 - haggle something
You can sometimes haggle a good discount. 有時候可以砍價打個好折扣。 - haggle something down (to something)
I managed to haggle the price down to something more reasonable. 我設法把價格砍到更合理的水平。
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘hack, mangle’): from Old Norse hǫggva ‘hew’.- haggle over/about something