核心畫面

One way to hold it: the person standing between two sides who never owns the goods. Buyer on one side, seller on the other; the broker carries the offer across, matches the two, and takes a cut. Move that middle position from a trading floor to a negotiating table and the same word becomes a verb.

可以想成站在兩方中間、但東西從來不屬於他的那個人:一邊是買方,一邊是賣方,他把條件帶過去、把兩邊配起來,抽一份傭金。更多收起可以想成站在兩方中間、但東西從來不屬於他的那個人:一邊是買方,一邊是賣方,他把條件帶過去、把兩邊配起來,抽一份傭金。把這個「中間人」的位置從交易室搬到談判桌上,同一個字就變成了動詞。

From the picture

居中促成協議

把中間人的動作變成動詞:兩邊談不攏,由第三方跑來跑去調條件,最後促成一份大家都能接受的協議。

broker a deal · verb · B2

To arrange the details of a deal or agreement so that all sides accept it.

斡旋;促成

Also in this word

stock broker · noun · B1

Someone whose job is to buy and sell things like company shares or foreign money for other people.

經紀人

deal broker · noun · B1

A person whose job is to arrange business deals or contracts between other people.

仲介;經紀人

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Brokername

  • 1

    A surname.

brokernoun詞源 2/ˈbɹəʊkə/

  • 1

    A mediator between a buyer and seller.

    • It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.
    • Liz Brent, broker at Go Brent in Maryland and Washington, DC, said she’s spent the past few months changing how she presents properties by emphasizing photographs, 3-D tours, and video vignettes for homes online.
  • 2

    A stockbroker.

  • 3

    A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.

    • The peace plan was representative of Benedict's inability to appear as a neutral broker of peace
  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsAn agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.

brokerverb詞源 2/ˈbɹəʊkə/

  • 1

    To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.

  • 2

    To act as a broker in; to bring about through brokering or negotiation; to arrange or negotiate.

    • When you first arrived on Menae, I had a hard time seeing how you flying off with one of our best generals would benefit our fight against the Reapers. However, as I now watch turian and krogan fighters working together to take down a Reaper destroyer, I must admit I am impressed. You've brokered an alliance that many thought impossible.
    • In Armando Iannucci’s sitcom The Thick of It, government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker brokers a peace with his opposition counterpart.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。