| 单词 | bargain |
| 例句 | bargain noun 1.•this binder is a bargain at $1.98:good buy, (good) value for the money, surprisingly cheap | informal steal, deal, giveaway, best buy. ANT rip-off. 2.•I'll make a bargain with you:agreement, arrangement, understanding, deal | contract, pact, compact | pledge, promise.▶verb •they bargained over the contract:haggle, negotiate, discuss terms, hold talks, deal, barter, dicker | formal treat. PHRASES bargain for/on •a whole new roof is more than we bargained for:expect, anticipate, be prepared for, allow for, plan for, reckon with, take into account, take into consideration, contemplate, imagine, envisage, foresee, predict | count on, rely on, depend on, bank on, plan on, reckon on, figure on. in(to) the bargain •we went to pick out one puppy and came home with two more in the bargain:also, as well, in addition, additionally, besides, on top of that, over and above that, to boot, for good measure. WORD NOTE enfeoff My fondness for this word (pronounced /en- feef /) is perverse. It stems in part from the fact that it is so very ancient (it first appears in manuscript texts at the beginning of the fifteenth century); so very English (it connotes the kind of lifestyle associated with knights and realms and demesnes and honor and chivalry); so wonderfully ugly sounding, as though you don't have all your teeth in place when uttering the word, or are suffering an almighty hangover; and so very odd-looking—all those f's look as though they should be the old versions of s's, the kind of writing you see on ancient charts, as in the cartographic-mystery phrase •Here Be Dragonf. The literal meaning is quite complicated: to enfeoff is literally to give to someone the permanent tenancy of land or estates that are in fact ultimately owned by a lord to whom the enfeoffed person gives loyalty, fealty (an etymologically connected word) and, perhaps, rent (or fee, of course). By association, and in a more up-to-date context, to enfeoff someone might be considered as persuading him to make a deal with the devil—to offer him, for example, a position in a loathed political administration to which he must then pay homage. Not a wholly uncommon and unrecognized phenomenon, in other words—and yet le mot juste often escapes one when writing about such a happenstance. Enfeoff solves this small problem, at a stroke. — SWConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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