dicker

英 ['dɪkə] 美 ['dɪkɚ]
  • vi. 易货;做小生意;讨价还价
  • n. 小生意;十张;十个
  • n. (Dicker)人名;(英、德、匈)迪克尔

中文词源


dicker 讨价还价

可能来自美国西部大开发时期,dicker, 十张毛皮,词源同ten. 当时的基本计量单位,引申义讨价还价。

英文词源


dicker (v.)
"haggle, bargain in a petty way," 1802, American English, perhaps from dicker (n.) "a unit or package of tens," especially hides (attested from late 13c.), perhaps from Latin decuria "parcel of ten" (supposedly a unit of barter on the Roman frontier; compare German Decher "set of ten things"), from decem "ten" (see ten) on model of centuria from centum.

双语例句


1. He may be expecting us to dicker. Don't.
他可能认为我们会争执起来。我们偏不。

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2. W : No , we don't, as you know, we are dicker.
对不起, 我们这不送, 你也知道,嘿嘿, 我们这小本生意.

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3. He would rather die than dicker over prices.
他宁愿死也不愿意讨价还价.

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4. Do some of miscellaneous? N dicker at present can money cost stabilizes low?
目前做些什 麽 小生意可以赚钱成本低又稳定的?

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5. I did not go to work into the enterprise now, do bit of dicker.
我现在没有进企业上班, 做点小生意.

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