A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
讨价还价
Bargain
It takes two to make a bargain.
达成协议需要两个人。
Necessity never made a good bargain.
需要买不到便宜货。
It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.
如果里面有臭虫就不划算了。
It's an even bargain one in which we both lose.
这是一个我们双方都输的公平交易。
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。
Buy him at his own price and sell him at yours and you'll make no bargain.
以其人之道还治其人之身。
I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down.
我总是建议重新布线老式照明。如果你的房子被烧了，就不划算了。
Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
这里有一条交易法则:“欺骗别人，因为他们也会欺骗你。”这才是真正的商业箴言。
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
当一个人对自己不满意时，它有一个好处——它使他有一个很好的心态去做交易。
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
你会发现，诗人或他那个时代最重要的船长，就像你会做的那样，会讨价还价或削土豆皮。
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
成为一名艺术家并不意味着你就是一名优秀的艺术家。这是我第一次和自己做的交易:我会说，我是一个艺术家，但我不是真的很好。