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Give-and-take is what happens when two people or groups do not each insist on winning every point. Each side gives a little and takes a little, so they can live or work together. It can mean the spirit of that — a willingness to meet in the middle — and also the back-and-forth itself, like a lively talk where both people speak and listen. You hear it about friendships, families, teams, and deals. It is everyday English, not a lawyer’s word, for “we both move a bit.” Without give-and-take, one side just takes.
互相讓步、有來有往（各退一步）
原始詞典資料3 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。
give-and-takenoun
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The settling of differences through compromise and mutual concessions.
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A lively exchange of conversation.
- We believe that it is in this spoken world, where people engage in phatic communion and indulge in the give-and-take of interpersonal socialising and the negotiation of personality, identity, friendship and connection, largely unmindful of institutional goals or language policies and politics, that one can best get a view of language vitality.
give-and-takeadj
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Transactional; concerning or requiring both concession and apprehension, not given or received without proportional or relative repercussion.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。