contract

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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

发音

US /kənˈtɹækt/
UK /ˈkɒntɹækt/
US /ˈkɑntɹækt/
UK /kənˈtɹækt/
UK /kənˈtɹækt/

词形变化

contracts 复数 contracts contracted contractest contracteth contracting contracts 三单 contracting 现在分词 contracted 过去式 contracted 过去分词

别名

LOC K

教材释义与例句

名词

合同;婚约

动词

感染;订约;使缩短

动词

收缩;感染;订约

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 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.

  2. 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

    法律
  3. 3.

    The document containing such an agreement.

    法律
  4. 4.

    A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

    法律
  5. 5.

    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.

  6. 6.

    The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

    游戏
v. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

    收缩

    收紧

    及物/不及物

    The snail’s body contracted into its shell.

    to contract one’s sphere of action

  2. 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”.

  3. 3.

    To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.

    不及物

    The company contracted with the council to build 200 new houses.

  4. 4.

    To enter into a contract with (someone or something).

    及物

    We have just contracted new pest control services.

  5. 5.

    To enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement).

    古体 及物
  6. 6.

    To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

    及物

    She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.

    to contract a debt

  7. 7.

    To gain or acquire (an illness).

    感染

    及物
  8. 8.

    To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

  9. 9.

    To betroth; to affiance.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    Not abstract; concrete.

    废旧

词汇关系

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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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