contract
n. 合约, 婚约, 契约 vt. 使皱缩, 使缩短, 感染, 订约, 缔结 vi. 皱缩, 订约, 收缩
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教材释义与例句
合同;婚约
感染;订约;使缩短
收缩;感染;订约
释义与例句
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1.
An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
sign a contract
write up a contract
read a contract
countersign a contract
legally-binding contract
unwritten contract
Marriage is a contract.
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2.
An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
合同
合约
契约
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3.
The document containing such an agreement.
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A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
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An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
非正式The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
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The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
游戏
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1.
To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
收缩
收紧
缩
及物/不及物The snail’s body contracted into its shell.
to contract one’s sphere of action
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2.
To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
语言学The word “cannot” is often contracted into “can’t”.
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3.
To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
不及物The company contracted with the council to build 200 new houses.
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4.
To enter into a contract with (someone or something).
及物We have just contracted new pest control services.
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To enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement).
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To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
及物She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
to contract a debt
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To gain or acquire (an illness).
感染
染
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To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
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To betroth; to affiance.
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1.
Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
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2.
Not abstract; concrete.
废旧
词汇关系
同义词 2
上位词 3
下位词 10
部分词 3
整体词 1
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词源
From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractus (noun), from contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”) [from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”)] + -tus (suffix forming nouns from verbs).
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