negotiating table

英 [nɪˈɡəʊʃieɪtɪŋ ˈteɪbl]

美 [nɪˈɡoʊʃieɪtɪŋ ˈteɪbl]

n.  谈判桌(指正式的谈判会议)

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牛津词典

noun

• 谈判桌（指正式的谈判会议）
  a formal discussion to try and reach an agreement
  1. We want to get all the parties back to the negotiating table.
     我们想把有关各方拉回到谈判桌上来。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 谈判桌
  If you say that people are atthe negotiating table, you mean that they are having discussions in order to settle a dispute or reach an agreement.
  1. 'We want to settle all matters at the negotiating table,' he said...
     他说：“我们想在谈判桌上解决所有问题。”
  2. The decision to return to the negotiating table marks an early victory for trade unions.
     回到谈判桌旁的决定标志着工会的初步胜利。

双语例句

• Peace may be achieved around the negotiating table, but it is sustained around community tables.
  和平或许可在谈判桌上实现，但是，和平只有放到社区的桌面上才能够维持。
• She helped to orchestrate the sanctions that brought Iran to the negotiating table.
  她帮助策划了对伊制裁，才将伊朗拉到了谈判桌前。
• The goal is to provide guidelines through which the parties can work out later disputes quietly over the negotiating table, avoiding China's often slow and cumbersome courts.
  这样做的目的在于提供一些指导原则，让当事方在今后发生纠纷时能够通过谈判私下里进行解决，避免在中国走常常缓慢、繁琐的法庭程序。
• A secondary motive could be to get Washington back to the negotiating table.
  第二个动机，可能是为了让美国政府重新回到谈判桌上。
• But no changes at the negotiating table reflected the cheap talk from the top.
  但政界高层的廉价说辞并未反应在谈判桌上，没有出现任何变化。
• Have you given any thought to coming back to the negotiating table?
  你还有没有打算回到谈判桌前去？
• Our aim is to bring this government to its knees, to force it to the negotiating table.
  我们的目标是使该政府屈服，迫使它走上谈判桌。
• That step could force Congress to the negotiating table and produce a large, balanced deficit-reduction programme that would boost confidence, the stock market and private investment.
  这一举措可能会迫使国会坐到谈判桌，并制定一项温和的大规模减赤计划，这将提振信心、股市和私人投资。
• President Abbas has put aside efforts to short-cut the pursuit of peace and come to the negotiating table.
  阿巴斯主席已将试图走捷径实现和平的做法搁置一边，并回到谈判桌前。
• European governments have the capacity also to apply economic and diplomatic pressure on Israel and on the Palestinian leadership to return to the negotiating table.
  欧洲各国政府也有能力对以色列和巴勒斯坦领导层施加经济和外交压力，让他们重新回到谈判桌上来。