The agreement between the buyer and seller is referred to in legal terms as a conditional sales contract. Quite often a down payment is required.

卖方与买方之间的这一协议，从法律的角度就是一种有条件合同，往往需先支付一笔定金。

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An Agreement of Purchase and Sale for a particular property which is conditional (becomes binding) upon the failure of another Agreement for the same property.

某物业的买卖协议，只有在相同物业的另外一个协议作废后才生效。

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The workers' agreement to return to work was conditional on the management increasing their wages.

工人们同意复工，但条件是资方必须增加他们的工资。

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There was a conditional agreement: yes, Norway should manage this oil risk but it's politically difficult and that's the problem-- is that we're not able to do our optimal management.

他们在一定程度上同意我的观点：,是的，挪威应该设法解决石油的风险,但这在政治上很困难,其问题在于-,挪威无法做到最优的管理。

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The joint venture will also purchase a 25% interest in the Whitgift Centre, following completion of Hammerson's conditional acquisition agreement with Royal London, which had a 155-year head lease on it.

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If they were to choose to make passage of the stimulus conditional on an agreement to address the long-term imbalances they could force Mr Obama to give some form of undertaking.

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