| 词汇 | compromise |
| 释义 | compromise noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈkɒm.prə.maɪz/ us /ˈkɑːm.prə.maɪz/ B2 an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree: 妥协；折中；让步；和解 It is hoped that a compromise will be reached in today's talks.希望今天的会谈能达成妥协。 In a compromise between management and unions, a four percent pay rise was agreed in return for an increase in productivity.资方与工会达成和解，同意以加薪4%来作为提高生产力的回报。 The government has said that there will be no compromise with terrorists.政府声称不会对恐怖分子让步。 The talks are aiming at a compromise.会谈旨在达成妥协。 The leader's aggressive stance seems to have foreclosed any chance of diplomatic compromise.这位领导人咄咄逼人的态度似乎已经排除了外交妥协的任何可能性。 I'm hopeful that we can reach a compromise.我对我们能达成和解充满希望。 Negotiations are a two-way thing - both sides have to come to a compromise.谈判是双方的事——双方都必须作出妥协。 A compromise has to be reached between all the powerful vested interests before any restoration work in the city can take place.势力强大的各既得利益集团间必须先达成妥协，城市整修工作才有可能开始。 Accepting & agreeing reluctantly accede to something acceptance acquiescence be resigned to somethingidiom bend to something bow down to someone cave in concede crack like it or lump itidiom peace resign yourself to something resignation resigned resignedly resort to something settle for something shoulder tolerate trade something off compromise verb uk /ˈkɒm.prə.maɪz/ us /ˈkɑːm.prə.maɪz/ compromiseverb (AGREEMENT)B2[ I ] to accept that you will reduce your demands or change your opinion in order to reach an agreement with someone: 妥协；折中；让步 Party unity is threatened when members will not compromise.成员们不愿妥协，党内团结受到了威胁。 Well, you want $400 and I say $300, so let's compromise at/on $350.好吧，你要价400美元，我说300美元，那我们就来个折中价350美元。 Somebody will have to compromise if we are to break the deadlock between the two warring factions. The reluctance of either side to compromise means that the talks are doomed to fail. The antagonists in this dispute are quite unwilling to compromise.这场争端中的各方均不愿妥协。 The dispute had reached an impasse, as neither side would compromise.由于双方都不肯让步，争端陷入僵局。 They have become irreconcilable, with both sides refusing to compromise any further.他们双方都拒绝进一步妥协，和解已经不可能了。 Accepting & agreeing reluctantly accede to something acceptance acquiescence be resigned to somethingidiom bend to something bow down to someone cave in concede crack like it or lump itidiom peace resign yourself to something resignation resigned resignedly resort to something settle for something shoulder tolerate trade something off compromiseverb (LOWER STANDARDS)[ T ]disapproving to allow your principles to be less strong or your standards or morals to be lower: 放弃;背离，违背;降低 Don't compromise your beliefs/principles for the sake of being accepted.不要为了得到别人的认同就放弃了你自己的信仰／原则。 If we back down on this issue, our reputation will be compromised.如果我们在这个问题上打退堂鼓的话，会有损我们的声誉。 His political career ended when he compromised himself by accepting bribes.他的政治生涯因他收受贿赂而宣告结束。 Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom disgraced dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse ignoble ignobly ignominious ignominiously ignominy shamefulness shoddily shoddiness shoddy stoop compromiseverb (HARM)C2[ T ] to risk having a harmful effect on something: 损害，伤害，危及 We would never compromise the safety of our passengers.我们永远不会做有损乘客安全的事。 Taking risks adventurer all in be skating on thin iceidiom bet the farm/ranchidiom broke expose gamble have/put your head on the blockidiom hazard high wire high-stakes imperil kamikaze put your neck on the lineidiom put/lay something on the lineidiom re-expose risk run the risk of doing somethingidiom sail skate compromise | American Dictionarycompromise noun[ C ] us/ˈkɑm·prəˌmɑɪz/ compromisenoun[C] (AGREEMENT)an agreement between two sides who have different opinions, in which each side gives up something it had wanted: Under the compromise, car manufacturers must use cleaner fuel but have more time to do it. compromise verb us/ˈkɑm·prəˌmɑɪz/ compromiseverb (LOWER STANDARDS)[ T ] to lower or weaken standards: His opponents charged that the deal would compromise conservative principles. compromiseverb (AGREE)[ I ] to agree to give up something you want if the other side, which has different opinions from yours, gives up something it wants: Republicans were refusing to compromise on health-care legislation. compromise | Business Englishcompromise noun uk /ˈkɒmprəmaɪz/us [ C or U ] a situation in which the people or groups involved in an argument reduce their demands in order to reach an agreement: arrive at/come to/reach a compromiseHouse and Senate staffers are working long hours to try to reach a compromise. acceptable/good/reasonable compromiseA deal will stick only if the vast majority of bondholders accept it as a reasonable compromise. a compromise deal/proposal/solutionBoth sides in the talks are willing to seek a compromise solution. [ C ] a solution to a problem that makes it possible for two or more opposite or different things to exist together: compromise between sth and sthThis piece of equipment is the ideal compromise between power and portability. compromise verb uk /ˈkɒmprəmaɪz/us [ I ] to reduce your demands in order to reach an agreement: compromise (with sb) on sthThey compromised with the HR department on the details of the appraisal system. [ I or T ] to risk harming something: compromise (on) sth'I believe it can be done without compromising on safety or service,' he said. His goal was to run a successful business without compromising his principles. Examples of compromisecompromise The leadership compromised but refused to hold an open primary. And, so, it is by virtue of this conceptual connection that the failure of the ontological argument is supposed to compromise the cosmological argument. He suffers early professional setbacks but emerges triumphant by the end of the novel because he has never compromised his own individuality. Yet a reduction division must precede fertilisation or problems with ploidy will compromise the viability of the resulting embryo. Since the human samples available for analysis are non-viable discarded material, they are potentially compromised. Three interviewees, by contrast, said they would seek non-standard work, but only as a compromise to their not having gained standard types of work. The drawback of this system was that precision was compromised. A number of factors compromise the precision of previous type analyses with a priori type definitions. These differences contributed to the formation of a great ideological divide that admitted no compromise, and that soon generated a spiral of political violence. These overstated positions reassure patients about physicians' primary beneficent outlook while allowing inevitable compromises to accommodate difficult situations or competing principles. A provisional compromise has been reached in this case, which forms the basis for the future bill. In exchange for this sponsorship, scholars risked compromising their disciplinary integrity. The sampling methods were of necessity a compromise. Alternatively, individual rights and democratic norms of compromise and non-violent conflict resolution flow logically from economic norms governing the exchange of goods and services. To know, for example, whether the autonomy of potential donors is compromised in practice, ethicists need to engage in empirical research. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withcompromisecompromiseThese are words often used in combination with compromise. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. acceptable compromise This is an acceptable compromise, but it does not describe the totality of their behaviour, nor (crucially) does it provide an adequate explanation for it. political compromise He hoped to address pressing economic problems which demanded political compromise: war debts, tariff and quota reductions, exchange restrictions, and the like. proposed compromise The proposed compromise is a cautious step towards opening up the market in port services and increasing transparency in ports. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with compromise |
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