| 词汇 | negotiate |
| 词源 | negotiate [E16th] The words negotiate and negotiations [LME] came into English from the Latin verb negotiari, which was made up of the two parts neg-, meaning ‘not’, and otium, ‘leisure’, the same image as *business. Otium is also the root of the English word otiose [L18th], ‘serving no practical purpose, pointless’. |
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