Play hardball 强硬态度 态度强硬 没商量The President played hardball with the neighboring country in order to force a railway line through the country.Mrs. Tyson played hardball with her kids, threatening to ground them if they didn't clean their rooms.Tanya played hardball with her boyfriend, by threatening to dump him if she didn't get a huge diamond ring.Definition: The use of any means, however ruthless, to attain an objective.Etymology: This term originated in baseball, where it alludes to using the standard ball as opposed to the slightly larger and softer softball. It was later used to describe aggressive behavior in the 1970s.Play hardball 强硬态度 态度强硬 没商量例句1: 政府在这个问题上态度强硬. The government played hardball on the issue.例句2: 小李和小张是一对,他们想结婚,但在婚礼仪式问题上互不相让, 态度强烈. Xiao li and Xiao Zhang are a couple and they want to get married. But they have a dispute on how the wedding ceremony should be held and both of them are playing hardball. 例句3: 孩子该不该自己吃饭?爸爸妈妈,奶奶爷爷想法不一样,奶奶要喂孩子, 妈妈坚持孩子自己吃,态度强硬,没商量. Should a child eat on his own or her own? Parents and grandparents have very different opinions. The grandma says the child should be fed and mom is insisting on her child to eat by himself or herself. She is playing hardball on the issue.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxLowball 压价销售 低价推销产品 The students were lowballed into agreeing to show up to a morning class, only to be told it started at 7am.The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed.Gary knew the real estate market was bad, so he lowballed the real estate agent to sell the house for cheaper than what it was worth.Definition: A persuasion and selling technique in which an item or service is offered at a lower price than is actually intended to be charged, after which the price is raised to increase profits.Etymology: A tactic in a game of poker in which the player with the lowest hand wins. Likewise, it is a very low estimate or offer.Lowball 压价销售 低价推销产品 例句1,公司新成立, 没人知道它的存在, 为吸引顾客低价销售产品. The company is a new one. Nobody has even heard of it. So it is lowballing the price of its products in order to attract customers.例句2,这所学校的学费比其它学校低, 后来学生发现上当, 是非法办学.The school lowballed the students by charging fees below the average and later students found out that it's an illegal school.