英语单词 | contract |
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英美音标 | [kən'trækt] |
中文释义 | n.合同,契约,婚约 v.使缩短,感染,订约 |
vocab简明 | When you and someone else have agreed on something and that agreement is both binding and enforceable by law, you have a contract. When you rent an apartment, you and your future landlord sign a rental contract. |
vocab扩展 | You can also use the word in this sense as a verb meaning "to hire." Wouldn't you like to contract someone to clean your room for you? In other verbal uses of contract, place the accent on the second syllable — kun-TRAKT. If you contract a disease, you catch it, but only use this if it's something serious. You catch a cold, but contract malaria. Contract also means "shrink." When the economy contracts, consumers stop buying things, and people lose their jobs, and if you freeze water, it contracts too. |
真题原句 | But under anti-bribery laws, proof must be made of concrete benefits, such as approval of a contract or regulation. |
柯林斯星级 | ★★★★☆ |
柯林斯解释 | The noun is pronounced /'kɒntrækt/. The verb is pronounced /kən'trækt/. 名词读作 /'kɒntrækt/,动词读作 /kən'trækt/。 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]合同;契约 A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
2 [VERB 动词]签合同,订立契约(做某事) If you contract with someone to do something, you legally agree to do it for them or for them to do it for you. [V [V to-inf] [FORMAL 正式]
3 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)收缩;(使)缩小;(使)缩短 When something contracts or when something contracts it, it becomes smaller or shorter. [V] [V n]
contraction
4 [VERB 动词](经济、市场等)紧缩,缩小 When something such as an economy or market contracts, it becomes smaller. [V]
5 [VERB 动词]感染,患(病) If you contract a serious illness, you become ill with it. [V n] [V-ed] [no cont] [FORMAL 正式]
6 [VERB 动词]订立(婚约);签订(盟约等) If you contract a marriage, alliance, or other relationship with someone, you arrange to have that relationship with them. [V n] [FORMAL 正式]
7 [N-COUNT 可数名词]买凶杀人的协议 If there is a contract on a person or on their life, someone has made an arrangement to have them killed. [usu N [INFORMAL 非正式]
8 [PHRASE 短语]签订工作合同的 If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no-one else, during a fixed period of time. [oft PHR
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来源 | 2017.4 |
Tags: 单词::2017
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