就快要过节了，老板这才想起要给大家发点儿福利，于是就召集我们几个问问发点儿什么好，会计小刘说还是买一批平板电脑会更受欢迎一些，正当老板嫌贵犹豫时，Lawrence来了一句“I suggest we buy direct from the manufacturer in order to cut out the middleman.” 一听能省钱，老板立马儿就拍板儿同意了......

Lawrence 这句话里有一个关键词“cut out the middleman”，大家可别想成是"剪掉中间那个人"哈，其实就是"绕过、跳过中间商"的意思，所以刚才他所说的就是 "我建议我们直接从厂家购买，省去中间商（赚差价）。" 下面就来跟大家说一下这个"middleman"，这个词儿很直观，"中间那个人"不就是中间商或者中间人嘛！

middleman

n. 经销商；中间商；中间人；经销商；掮客；中介人；牵线人

【En】

Someone who buys things in order to sell them to someone else, or who helps to arrange business deals for other people.

为了卖给别人而买东西的人，或者帮别人安排生意的人。

A middleman is a person or company which buys things from the people who produce them and sells them to the people who want to buy them.

中间商是从生产者那里购买商品，然后再卖给想购买商品的人的个人或公司。

A middleman is a person who helps in negotiations between people who are unwilling to meet each other directly.

中间人是帮助不愿直接见面的人进行谈判的人。

Someone who communicates or makes arrangements between two people or groups who are unwilling or unable to meet or deal directly with each other.

在两个不愿意或不能直接见面或打交道的人或团体之间进行沟通或安排的人。

• Why don't they cut out the middleman and let us do it ourselves?

他们为什么不跳过中间人，让我们自己做呢?

• The two sides would only meet indirectly, through middlemen.

双方只能通过中间人间接接触。

• He acts as a middleman for British companies seeking contracts in the Gulf.

他为寻求海湾地区合同的英国公司充当中间人。

• Buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman (=avoid using a middleman).

直接从制造商那里购买，避免经过中间商。

【活学活用 give an example】

• They want to cut out the middleman's fees and get part of the market share.

他们希望削减掉中间商的代理费用，在这个市场分一杯羹。

• You can lower the price by cutting out (= avoiding the use of) the middleman and buying directly from the factory.

你可以绕过中间商直接从工厂采购来降低价格。

• Stanley worked as a middleman on U.S. and Soviet business deals.

斯坦利是美国和苏联商业交易的中间人。

• 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.

• I Believe that a commission is usually allowed for a middleman.

对中间商来说，一般还是给佣金的吧。

• Mata, a consummate politician, seemed to enjoy his powerful administrative role as middleman between the communities and the private sector.

马塔，一个完美的政治家，似乎很享受他作为社区和私营部门之间的中间人的强大行政职能。

• Therefore in a positive sense, conservation does not attract bureaucrats or quasi-official middlemen.

因此，从积极的意义上说，环保不会吸引官僚或准官方的中间商。

• A better plan, I figure, would be to eliminate the middleman.

我认为更好的计划是，消除中间人。

• Their rates tend to be lower because they don't have to pay commission to middlemen.

他们的费率往往较低，因为他们不需要向中间商支付佣金。

• Of course, if you have a fax at home, you can cut out the middleman.

当然，如果你家里有传真机，你就可以省去中间人。

• Cawthorne seems to have cut out the middleman.

考索恩似乎去掉了中间人。

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