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讨便宜

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Collocation

1
在……(某人那里或某个方面)讨便宜
2
讨……(某人)的便宜
3
别想讨便宜
4
不该讨便宜
5
讨不到便宜
6
讨到了便宜

Definition

讨便宜

Literally means:

seek undue advantage

Actually means:

look for a cheap bargain

It means that one purposely seeks an undue advantage, an advantage that may be financial or nonfinancial, moral or immoral.

存心取得某种好处。这里所说的好处,包括经济上和不是经济上的,包括正当的和不正当的。

Example

Used as predicate or object, and it can have other words in between. (作谓语、宾语,中间可以插入别的词语)
1
Mǎifáng
买房
rén
wǎngwǎng
往往
méiyǒu
没有
zhǎng
掌握
gòu
足够
de
xìn
信息
  
,
yīn
因此
duō
许多
fángchǎn
房地产
kāishāng
开发商
biàn
便
yòng
利用
zhège
这个
ruòdiǎn
弱点
  
,
zài
mǎifáng
买房
rén
shēnshàng
身上
tǎo
le
shǎo
不少
biàn
便宜
  
,
zhuàn
le
duō
许多
gāi
zhuàn
de
qián
  

Buyers often do not have enough information, so many real estate developers will take advantage of this weakness, in the buyers to get a lot of cheap, make a lot of money should not earn.

2
shì
jīngmíng
精明
de
shāngrén
商人
  
,
shuí
dōu
biè
xiǎng
cóng
li
那里
tǎo
dào
biàn
便宜
  

He is a shrewd businessman, and no one wants to get a bargain from him.

3
Zài
zhè
这次
zhàndòu
战斗
zhōng
  
,
rén
敌人
dàn
不但
tǎo
dào
不到
bàndiǎn
半点
biàn
便宜
  
,
fǎnér
反而
shāng
死伤
guòbàn
过半
  

In this battle, the enemy not only did not get half a bargain, but more than half of the dead and wounded.

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