<非正>交换物品[人]
1. trade off
1. 以…换取
If you trade off one thing against another, you exchange all or part of one thing for another, as part of a negotiation or compromise.
e.g. They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling...
他们见利忘义地试图以减少屠杀海豚数量作为交换条件，重启商业捕鲸。
e.g. There is a possibility of being able to trade off information for a reduced sentence.
有可能以情报换取减刑。
2. (为达到利己目的)利用
If someone trades off something, they make use of it for their own advantage, often in an unfair way.
e.g. They would be able to trade off their looks and manage on that alone.
他们将能利用自己的外表，并且单靠这一点就可以。
1. Such a narrowing trade surplus has been long awaited as it indicates that the ongoing efforts to check export growth are paying off.
2. Two days after a loss at Phoenix that made coach Maurice Cheeks cry, the beleaguered Blazers shook off trade rumors and team discontent for a thrilling victory.
3. trade off
3. The sanctions are meant to cut off the DPRK's arms trade.
4. Ten per cent of respondents were so body depressed they said they would happily trade four or more years off their lives to slim down.
5. Many people are indeed willing to trade off the vanity of owning a car and the freedom of driving around for clean air.
6. It is in corporate America trooping to Washington for trade protection to fend off this new threat.
7. China's foreign trade volume took off after it began opening to outside world and adopted the reform policy two decades ago.
8. Funeral home workers get few holidays off because these are especially busy times for their trade.
9. Gary Payton was back in Celtics green Friday night, one week after Boston shipped him off to Atlanta in a trade for Antoine Walker.
10. He also said he suggested to Chinese officials a mechanism for bilateral dialogue on the steel sector to head off potential trade disputes.