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Contract 例:The Contracted Verb Work N Count 例:He Museum

单词 contract
音标
英[ˈkɒntrækt] 美[ˈkɑntrækt]
解释
n.合同;契约;协议;
例句

N-COUNT
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.
例:The company won a prestigious contract for work on Europe's tallest building...这家公司赢得了一份极为重要的合同,参与建设欧洲最高的大厦。
例:He was given a seven-year contract with an annual salary of $150,000.他签下了一份为期7年的合同,年薪为15万美元。

VERB
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.
例:You can contract with us to deliver your cargo...你可以跟我们签订送货合同。
例:The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has already contracted to lease part of its collection to a museum in Japan.波士顿美术博物馆已经签订合同,将其部分藏品租借给日本一家博物馆。

V-ERG
(使)收缩;(使)缩小;(使)缩短
When something contracts or when something contracts it, it becomes smaller or shorter.
例:Blood is only expelled from the heart when it contracts...血液在心脏收缩的时候从心脏流出。
例:New research shows that an excess of meat and salt can contract muscles.新的研究表明,过量食用肉类和盐可能会导致肌肉收缩。

VERB
(经济、市场等)紧缩,缩小
When something such as an economy or market contracts, it becomes smaller.
例:The manufacturing economy contracted in October for the sixth consecutive month.10月,制造业经济已经连续第6个月出现萎缩状况。

VERB
感染,患(病)
If you contract a serious illness, you become ill with it.
例:He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion...他因为输血而感染了艾滋病。
例:Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer contracted by women.卵巢癌是女性常患的第六大癌症。

VERB
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.
例:She contracted a formal marriage to a British ex-serviceman.她和一个英国退役军人正式订婚了。

N-COUNT
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.
例:The convictions resulted in the local crime bosses putting a contract on him...这些判罪导致当地犯罪团伙的老大们要雇凶杀他。
例:The police advised her to get out of town because there was a contract on her life.警察建议她离开这个城市,因为有人雇杀手杀她。

PHRASE
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.
例:The director wanted Olivia de Havilland, then under contract to Warner Brothers.导演想要当时签约于华纳兄弟娱乐公司旗下的奥利维娅·德哈维兰出演。
变形
third:contracts~done:contracted~pl:contracts~ing:contracting~past:contracted~

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