bargaining chip
'bargaining .chip
especially AmE'bargaining .counterBrE n[C]
something that one person or group in a business deal or political agreement has, that can be used to gain an advantage in the deal
1. The silicon chip is less than a millimeter thick. 这个硅片还不到一毫米厚。
2. The government has been pressing for computer makers to include a special chip in their machines to allow police agencies to listen to electronic communications. 政府一直在敦促电脑制造商在机中加装一块特殊的芯片以使警方能接听电子通信。
3. Her basket on her arm, she went to the fruiterer´s, the grocer´s, the butcher´s, bargaining, defending every sou of her miserable money. 胳膊上挎着篮子,她去水果店、杂货店和肉店,讨价还价,极力维护辛苦挣来的每一个铜板。
4. As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars, 由于制造一块芯片的时间已缩短至几天,费用也只有几百美元,
5. Another time, I arrived to find him chewing the last of a batch of chocolate chip cookies my mother had sent me. 还有一次,我回来就看到他在吃我的最后一块巧克力曲奇饼,那是我妈妈带给我的。
6. You wonder if eating a dozen chocolate-chip (碎片) cookies, wearing a house coat until 4, combing your hair at 5, cleaning behind the stove (twice) and crying in a job-agency parking lot qualify as symptoms of stress or maybe loss of self-worth. 你不知道这些情况是否可以归类于因紧张、或许还有失去自身价值所引起的症状:一连吃下十几块巧克力曲奇、下午4点钟还穿着居家便服、5点钟才梳头发、在炉子后面东扫西抹 (两遍),以及在职业介绍所的停车场上哭泣。
7. Many of the tourists on board had begun bargaining with the tradesmen, 船上许多游客开始同商贩讨价还价起来,
8. India-born N. Damodar Reddy´s tiny California company reopened an AT&T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of Missouri. 印度出生的N.达莫达.雷迪经营的小小的加州公司在堪萨斯城重新启用了美国电话电报公司的一家芯片工厂,并从密苏里州获取了财政上的支持。
9. Imagine a small plastic card that holds all manner of information about you on a tiny memory chip (芯片): 设想一下一张小小的塑料卡,在微小的记忆芯片上存有关于你的所有信息:
10. For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph. D. from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan´s near lock on the memory-chip market. 比如说,亚历克斯.奥,一位来自香港的斯坦福大学博士,已经在台湾建厂,对日本在内存条市场上近似垄断的局面提出了挑战。
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