Somebody else owned them, and discovered them, and demanded that they get paid, and ended up negotiating with the company, and we got a kicker.

其他人买了这些债券，发现了这个问题，然后要求偿付，到最后以和公司协商了事，然后我们得到了一个促销品。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's what they spend their time negotiating.

和他们花时间协商的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Those relationships take place in the context of continual negotiations of sexual relationships, and so the book begins with that explanation that: I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

他们之间的关系是建立在,不断协商和性关系的基础上，所以书的开头有这样一段说明：,我第一次见到迪恩时刚和我妻子分开。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选