◆impending (adj.):An impending event is one that is going to happen very soon. (差し迫った、今にも起こりそうな)
◆haggle (vt.):If you haggle, you argue about something before reaching an agreement, especially about the cost of something that you are buying. (値切る
Safah, the teenager, was well aware of the impending
transaction.
In the weeks after she was kidnapped and imprisoned in a dark house in Baghdad's middle-class Karada district, Safah heard her captors haggling
with Sa'ad over her price.