谈判

"In defence of your protege you can even be saucy ."

"为了保护你的被保护人，你竟然变得无礼了。"

The man watched him go, limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope toward the soft sky-line of the low-lying hill.

他的伙伴干瞧着他，只见他古里古怪地一瘸一拐地走着，跌跌撞撞地前进，摇摇晃晃地登上一片不陡的斜坡，向矮山头上不十分明亮的天际走去。