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[英] [kənˈtrækt] [美] [ˈkɑnˌtrækt] 生词本

vt.& vi.

vi.

[ˈkɔntrækt]

n.

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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 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. 

  • 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。

  • 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。

2. 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. 

  • You can contract with us to deliver your cargo...

    你可以跟我们签订送货合同。

  • 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。

3. V-ERG (使)收缩;(使)缩小;(使)缩短 When something contracts or when something contracts it, it becomes smaller or shorter. 

  • 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。

  • 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。

contraction

  • ...the contraction and expansion of blood vessels...

    血管的收缩和扩张

  • Foods and fluids are mixed in the stomach by its muscular contractions.

    通过胃部肌肉的收缩食物和流质在胃中混合。

4. VERB (经济、市场等)紧缩，缩小 When something such as an economy or market contracts, it becomes smaller. 

  • 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。

5. VERB 感染，患(病) If you contract a serious illness, you become ill with it. 

  • He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion...

    他因为输血而感染了艾滋病。

  • 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。

6. 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. 

  • 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。

7. 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. 

  • 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。

  • 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。

8. 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. 

  • 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。

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Noun

1. a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

2. (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

3. a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

Verb

1. enter into a contractual arrangement

2. engage by written agreement;

  • "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"

3. squeeze or press together;

  • "she compressed her lips"
  • "the spasm contracted the muscle"

4. become smaller or draw together;

  • "The fabric shrank"
  • "The balloon shrank"

5. be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;

  • "He got AIDS"
  • "She came down with pneumonia"
  • "She took a chill"

6. make smaller;

  • "The heat contracted the woollen garment"

7. compress or concentrate;

  • "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"

8. make or become more narrow or restricted;

  • "The selection was narrowed"
  • "The road narrowed"

9. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

  • "The manuscript must be shortened"

公路科技

<名>
  • 1.合同

医学

  • 1.①收缩，缩短：如肌肉的收缩；②获得，招致

旅游

  • 1.合同

水利

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  • 1.承包合同
  • 2.确定发包与承包双方的权利与义务，并受法律保护的契约性文件。

法律

  • 1.协议
  • 2.契约
  • 3.承办
  • 4.约据
  • 5.订约
  • 6.立约
  • 7.合同

计算机

  • 1.契约，合同

金融

  • 1.现金交易
  • 2.合约
  • 3.定幅式远期合约
1. A $75 M contract has been awarded to Swedish construction firm.
一项金额达7500万美元的承包工程已由一家瑞典公司得标。

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2. After become effective of property insurance contract, those who serve as insurance mark insurance belongings reachs his to concern a benefit, because the meeting is buying and selling, given, accede to wait for the happening of the circumstance and be transferred, after the cession of insurance mark, the alienee that insurance profit meets what change insurance bid subsequently of course.
财产保险合同生效后，作为保险标的的保险财产及其有关利益，会由于买卖、赠予、继续等情况的发生而转移，保险标的转让后，保险利益当然会随之转移给保险标的的受让人。

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3. After negotiation, they tacked two new clauses on to the end of the contract.
通过协商，他们在合同末尾处又加上了两项新条款。

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4. All the managerial personnel at the factory are hired on contract.
工厂所有管理人员都是聘用的。

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5. Bad habits are easy to contract.
坏习惯很容易养成。

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6. Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia.
赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。

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7. Enclosed is our contract No. 345 in duplicate, of which please return us one copy, duly countersign.
随函附上我方第345号合同一式两分，请会签并回寄一份。

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8. Getting the contract was quite a coup.
把合同争取到手是巧妙精彩的一着。

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9. Has your lawyer drawn up the contract yet?
你的律师把契约写好了没有？

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10. He beguiled me into signing this contract.
他诱骗我签订了这项合同。

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11. He broke his contract with the firm.
他对公司毁约了。

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12. He didn't keep to the letter of the contract.
他没有严格按照合同的条文办事。

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13. He drove a hard bargain with me over the terms of the contract.
他就合约条件极力地和我讨价还价。

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14. He subscribed his name to the contract.
他在合同上签名。

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15. He was sued for breach of contract.
他因不履行合同而被起诉。

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16. He was technically in breach of contract.
严格按照法律条文来讲，他是违约了。

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17. Her boss blew her up for losing the contract.
她的老板因为她遗失了合同而把她骂了一顿。

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18. Her contract is coming up for renewal in the autumn.
她的合同秋天就应该续签了。

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19. Herewith we are sending you a written contract under seal in two copies.
兹寄上盖有印章的契约一式两份。

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20. His contract was abruptly terminated.
他的合同意外地终止了。

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