contracts
英 [kənˈtrækts]
美 [kənˈtrækts]
n. 合同; 合约; 契约; (雇用杀人的)协议
v. (使)收缩,缩小; 感染(疾病); 得(病); 与…订立合同(或契约)
contract的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 合同;契约
Acontractis 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。
- The company won a prestigious contract for work on Europe's tallest building...
- VERB 签合同,订立契约(做某事)
If youcontract withsomeonetodo 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。
- You can contract with us to deliver your cargo...
- V-ERG (使)收缩;(使)缩小;(使)缩短
When somethingcontractsor when somethingcontractsit, 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。
- Blood is only expelled from the heart when it contracts...
- VERB (经济、市场等)紧缩,缩小
When something such as an economy or marketcontracts, 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。
- The manufacturing economy contracted in October for the sixth consecutive month.
- VERB 感染,患(病)
If youcontracta 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。
- He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion...
- VERB 订立(婚约);签订(盟约等)
If youcontracta 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。
- She contracted a formal marriage to a British ex-serviceman.
- N-COUNT 买凶杀人的协议
If there is acontract ona 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。
- The convictions resulted in the local crime bosses putting a contract on him...
- PHRASE 签订工作合同的
If you areunder contract tosomeone, 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。
- The director wanted Olivia de Havilland, then under contract to Warner Brothers.
The noun is pronounced /'kɒntrækt/. The verb is pronounced /kən'trækt/. 名词读作 /'kɒntrækt/,动词读作 /kən'trækt/。
双语例句
- There are plenty of precedents in Hollywood for letting people out of contracts.
在好莱坞,允许影视人员解除合同的先例有很多。 - Contracts and written agreements are quite unheard of.
合同和书面协议都是前所未闻的。 - There's a popular supposition that we're publicly funded but the bulk of our money comes from competitive contracts
人们普遍认为我们是受公共基金的资助,然而我们大部分资金是通过签订竞争性合同得来的。 - Metal contracts as it becomes cool.
金属冷却时体积缩小。 - The company has 90 staff, almost all on short-term contracts
公司有90名员工,几乎全是签的短期合同。 - Short-term contracts increase staff turnover
短期合同使得员工流动率增高。 - Were the contracts that were offered to the players as derisory as we have been led to believe?
合同里给球员开出的薪水真如想要我们相信的那样低得可笑吗? - The company's competitors complain that they are hemmed in by rigid legal contracts.
公司的竞争对手抱怨他们受到严格的法律合同的约束。 - Amanda launched into an authoritative disquisition about contracts.
阿曼达就合约给出了权威性的阐述。 - Low temperature contracts metals.
低温使金属收缩。