I haggled him down to $25.
對(duì)話
Danielle: I like your new anorak, it looks really expensive, where did you get it - in that upscale sports shop in the mall?
Russell: Well thanks, but no I didn't. I got it in the market.
Danielle: How much did you pay for it?
Russell: Not as much as the man asked for. He wanted $45.
Danielle: That would have been a bit steep, it's almost the shop price.
Russell: I know, but I haggled him down to $25, so I reckon I've got a bit of a bargain.
丹尼利：我喜歡你這件連帽夾克，看來(lái)很昂貴，在哪里買的？是不是購(gòu)物中心那家高級(jí)運(yùn)動(dòng)用品店？
羅素：謝謝你的欣賞，不過(guò)，這件夾克不是在那運(yùn)動(dòng)用品店買的，而是在市場(chǎng)里。
丹尼利：你花了多少錢買？
羅素：沒(méi)有那人開價(jià)那么多。他要四十五元。
丹尼利：那未免太貴了，幾乎等于商店價(jià)錢。
羅素：我知道。但我跟他殺價(jià)，降到二十五元。我想想，算是買到便宜貨。
羅素說(shuō)，他跟小販講價(jià)，把夾克的價(jià)錢殺到二十五元：I haggled him down to $25 for the anorak。Haggle即‘講價(jià)’，常用于haggle somebody/something down的句式，I haggled the price down即‘我把價(jià)錢殺了下去’。這個(gè)haggle是及物動(dòng)詞(transitive verb)。但haggle也常作不及物動(dòng)詞(intransitive verb)，即其后不直接用受詞(object)，常見說(shuō)法是haggle with somebody over something，例如：I haggled with him over (the price of )the anorak, finally getting it for $25。Haggle的一個(gè)同義詞是dicker，也是不及物動(dòng)詞，例如：(1) I hate to dicker（我不喜歡講價(jià)）。(2) I dickered with him over the refrigerator, trying to beat down the price（我和他講價(jià)，要他降低電冰箱的售價(jià)）。Beat down有‘殺價(jià)’的意思。The price the vendor asked was $45, but I beat it/him down to $25即‘那小販開價(jià)四十五元，但我把價(jià)錢殺到二十五元’。‘價(jià)錢太高了’的英文俗語(yǔ)說(shuō)法是The price is a bit（或pretty）steep/stiff。Steep的原意是‘陡峭’，stiff則是‘僵硬’，上述用法無(wú)非引申原意。最后談?wù)剈pscale一字。這個(gè)字是指‘適合高消費(fèi)階層的’或‘價(jià)高質(zhì)優(yōu)的’，反義詞是downscale，等于英式英文的upmarket、downmarket，例如：(1) The publisher has decided to launch an upmarket fashion magazine（出版社決定出版一本高消費(fèi)階層的時(shí)裝雜志）。(2) The shop moved downmarket（那家商店轉(zhuǎn)攻低價(jià)市場(chǎng)）。