middleman

1 The idea of a secret middleman — someone who sets up meetings and trades favors — is especially timely.

2 Having the aid of a middleman, so to speak, lowers the pressure of having to create a unique will-you-marry-me moment, she said.

3 These middlemen tribes ferried everything from buffalo robes to   slaves, to be traded in exchange for muskets and flintlocks.

4 She wants to buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman.

她想避开分销商直接自厂家买进货物。

5 Are developers just the soulless middlemen creating supply to meet luxury-living demand?

6 The mother believes so, although communication is difficult, and there is no choice but to trust middlemen.

7 Sometimes, food products are processed several times—cleaned, chopped, packaged, cooked, or combined into sauces—and all in different locations and by different middlemen.

8 Less powerful tribes — Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee and Wichita — served as middlemen for the Comanche, crisscrossing the continent as goods brokers for American merchants back east and French fur traders to the south.

9 That way, they could have the prized Asian spices they wanted without having to pay high prices to Venetian and Muslim middlemen.

10 Travelzoo is a middleman, vetting travel deals and then posting them on its website as well as sending them to their members in promotional emails.

11 Efraim lives large and does business fearlessly, acting as a middleman between weapons suppliers and the military in deals that get bigger and bigger, until both he and David are in over their heads.

12 Because hotels pay as much as a 25 percent commission to booking sites, it’s a win-win: you’ll actually both save money by cutting out the middleman.

13 Many exhibitors were Internet middlemen, promising evaluation, exposure and marketing — for a percentage of course.

14 First it was a curious tale of a $1.3 million painting a middleman said he drunkenly lost while trying to help a friend sell it.

15 My father expects me to say something to my brother about paying him back, but I don't want to be the middleman.

16 This mundane department store position created a connection — with Munir as the unwitting middleman — that would lead to his brother acquiring a gun.

17 He brought together representatives from multinational drug companies, independent middlemen and distributors, nonprofit organizations—almost anyone who might have an impact on drug pricing.

18 Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner were expected to be the middlemen in this deal, bringing together her bombastic father and the city's social elite in a gesture of civility.

19 We approach the retailers directly, without any middleman.

我们直接和零售商打交道, 不经过任何中间人.

20 For its part, the Clinton administration wanted to gradually increase the number of student loans that the government made directly to students, without going through banking sector middlemen.

1 经纪人

agent broker impresario ten percenter booking agent manager scrivener factor handler factorial operator boardman

2 中间人

broker intermediary contact man go-between intermediate jobber butty linkman piggy-in-the-middle broking middle intermediator internuncio contact intervenor

3 调解人

intermediary accommodationist moderator peacemaker go-between

4 中人

go-between

5 零售商人

shopkeeper chandler

6 居间人

go-between

7 中间商

factor

8 掮客

broker jobber commission agent commission merchant scrivener go-between broking operator solicitor five-percenter

9 经销商

distributor