contract

1 He’d already contracted some day laborers to get to work repairing it.

2 His contract is coming up for renewal.

他的合同快到续订期了。

3 I understand now that even a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it's a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.

4 There are three main types of contract(s).

有三种主要的合同。

5 Glass contracts as it cools.

玻璃遇冷收缩。

6 They formed a union and fought for proper contracts, health benefits, and protections against arbitrary firing, and along with that came a push for fairness in hiring.

7 Harry Strickland had always been a genial man, better at hammering out contracts than at hammering on foes.

8 If it was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting.

9 As the air in the tube cooled and contracted, it sucked water up.

10 She signed the paper where the clerk pointed, tried to listen carefully to all his warnings about what the contract demanded, and stuffed the broadside that he handed her into her apron pocket.

11 They agreed to a five-year contract, during which they were to be paid a daily wage, and were given promise of a return passage back to India.

12 It's an urgent business, we have no time for unnecessary consideration—please contract your inspection period!

这是个紧急时间,我们没时间做多余的考虑了——请缩短你的审查期！

13 And though nonlawyers might assume that the language of contracts, such as the party of the first part, must serve some legal purpose, most of it is superfluous.

14 “We can contract him and the government will pay well for his help.”

15 He had also begun negotiating a contract with Eastman Kodak for large-scale industrial production of these nonradioactive substances.

16 She flicked her ears and said, “Don’t remember no contract.”

17 Only later did I realize that the true cause of this malady was hard, merciless shivering, my muscles contracting as mechanically as if by electric impulse, all night long, every night.

18 My stomach contracted with uneasiness, certain there would be a fight.

19 Then they began, as he knew they invariably would, to criticize the government—money stolen, contracts uncompleted, infrastructure left to rot.

20 Amalgamation, centralized conflict resolution, decision making, economic redistribution, and kleptocratic religion don’t just develop automatically through a Rousseauesque social contract.

1 订契约

sign bond

2 婚约

engagement hand plight espousal betrothal troth handfast precontract affiance trothplight understanding handfasting

3 缩小

wizened contraction diminution diminish dwindle reduce scale Bridge retreat chop shorten lessen reduced constricted downgrade shrinkage narrow shrink close constrict stop down scale back scale down belittle de-escalate fine lower detract calcine cut-down reduction pare cut down cut down on shave off cut down to foreshortened condense miniature imperfect contracted peaked peak neck recede deescalate minify minish decrease sag cutback retrenchment abridgment cutdown fritter demagnify curtail abridge retrench coarctate coarctation

4 与…结交

see

5 合同

contractual bond compact stipulation agreement obligation treaty bargain pact gage covenant indenture stipulate transaction concordat

6 缩紧

clench

7 结成

set

8 缩约

contraction

9 事情

comether go show event job matter concern circumstance affair occupation proposition racket shebang

10 合约

compact

11 皱缩

lank contraction crimp shrivel mummify blast shrink purse shrunken wizened shrinkage draw crawl rivel crimple

12 得

make get register pot come down with yes can must pick up

13 感染

infectious infection get affect catch infect attaint strike the right chord contraction take taint nasty canker contaminate angry contagion rub off permeate pick up rub off on rub off onto appeal

14 的常见搭配词

important key material major direct popular particular positive essential involved mass express corporate increased objective hurt detailed extreme severe suitable reliable immediate junior violent overwhelming desperate racial modest lengthy vague unaware diplomatic damaging undue suited ill groundless highly fully seriously plain increasingly support plan feature build project research quality increase review contact visit code solution search network role location total challenge approach request environment fine attack impact requirement guide stage growth setting strategy factor drug disease campaign advice conduct protection custom conference component basis instruction injury register layer stress lesson signal regulation diet majority desire journey estimate appeal investigation comfort presence possibility talent criminal profit reaction contribution suggestion difficulty violence permission array arrangement chat reduction shock sequence scenario outline scope prospect reputation donation dimension recognition reform legislation intention urge qualification settlement hint interpretation tension independence tactic involvement kiss criticism minority implication determination accent patience significance panic offence unity pollution sensation sanction glimpse occurrence humour speculation objection instinct precaution publicity sigh concession scrutiny dominance rubbish omission coup cause reach reduce recommend improve sense suggest maintain treat object discuss voice promote assume obtain influence fuel highlight inspire approve refuse ignore draft observe tap arise combat conclude reject drain propose satisfy overcome comply react undertake differ interpret lodge oppose reinforce dismiss flush uncover explode forge dictate undermine weaken devise glare underline

15 皱紧

contraction

16 染上

come down with

17 工作

working operating operational work service business run job performance piece effort situation operation shop task lay employment employ occasion ongoing assignment pursuit occupation labour proposition undertaking racket thrift travail dinkum statice do operate operationalize

18 缩写

contraction

19 负

negative minus privative meet Waterloo subtractive come to time

20 订

book indent place strike bind bespeak

21 串通

complicity

22 患

subject catch take vapor itch

23 减少

waning sagging Down improvement decrease contraction downgrade dilution shrinkage diminution fall-off falling-off slack reduce improve slow decline narrow shrink dull diminish weaken lessen sag wane falter abate cut lower compromise dilute curtail slacken whittle down take away from shave off smooth over

24 缩

draw shrink shorten

25 缔结

conclusion conclude signatary enter make strike

26 皱

draw knit corrugated cor. ruck crinkle ruga gather knot

27 协议

agreement understanding compact settlement treaty pact capitulation concordat deal convention protocol bargain accord

28 约定

due conventional appointed promissory down term understanding appointment engagement arrangement treaty undertaking stipulate assignation article agree engage undertake bargain set promise appoint

29 染患

catch

30 结交

company consort run around with mix associate join

31 合约桥牌

contract bridge

32 收缩

contraction shrinkage systole flex shrink tuck constrict shrivel systolic constricted hold in suck in traction recede narrow scrunch shrunken constringent constrictive contractive astriction constringency gather knot pinch constriction striction astringe reef deflate straiten astrict collected contracted contractile involuted contractible crispation deflation draw involute constringe astrictive astringently take-up retract neck down

33 定约

declaration

34 患上

get develop come on come down with

35 契约书

covenant indenture

36 缩略

contraction abbreviation condensation compendium esquire clip contracted skeletonize

37 染

color colour dye tincture tinge

38 订约

stipulate bargain indent sign promise

39 限定

finite determinate definition restriction define modify restrict circumscribe qualify specialize

40 沾染

infect

41 招

draw declare enlist

42 形成

formation gestation morphosis in form brew pass into

43 皱起

puckery knit purse wrinkle rimple

44 订婚

engagement betrothal troth engage plight espouse betroth engaged precontract affiance trothplight espousal deuce it

45 承包

undertaking job let under contract

46 负债

indebted red liability negative capital

47 缩短

contraction abbreviation curtailment curtail abbreviate compact reef shorten telescope abridge cut-down chop compress condense retrench curtate shortening shrink reduce foreshorten contracted curt syncopated curtal retrenchment abridgment cutdown cut short abbreviated curtailed clip dock truncate

48 月票

season commutation ticket

49 紧缩

austere knotted squeeze austerity knot deflate firm stringent constrictive compression stringency retrench constringe constriction disinflate belt-tightening stegnosis contraction contracture striction

50 贿赂

shake squeeze corruption grease bribe slush sop vail douceur tamper see fix influence square backhander glove money palm grease golden key alyo take price oil drop protection ice bonus hat soap dash sling graft sweetener payoff salve dropsy payola sugarplum blat schmear boodle plugola sugar smear sweeten throw a sop to Cerberus

51 承办

purveyance purvey

52 限制

exclusive restrictive limit bar reserve bind limitation restriction qualification constraint bound restraint rein confinement bridle abridgement zariba box chain restrict regulate confine cramp hamper restrain imprison crib corset constipate circumscribe abridge trammel entrammel tie qualify narrow terminate straiten block up hem in peg down block in limitary limiting limitative downhold condition disability parameter modification clamp contraction stint constipation embargo circumscription conscribe reduce scant padlock fetter swaddle astrict set measures to bind down fence around cage in

53 招致

court invite spell incur open induce draw down bring down on oneself incurrence do create produce carry draw earn secure desire procure woo redound fall in for

54 订立

conclude conclusion intercalation bind

55 契约

bond compact covenant pact stipulation agreement obligation deed contractual go engagement bargain indent gage indenture testament bargaining stipulate contracted condition deal transaction warranty treaty dealing concordat handfast article booking mise muniment deed of covenant

56 养成

form take hold