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N-COUNT
合同;契約
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.
例句
The company won a prestigious contract for work on Europe's tallest building...
這家公司贏得了一份極為重要的合同，參與建設歐洲最高的大廈。
He was given a seven-year contract with an annual salary of $150,000.
他簽下了一份為期7年的合同，年薪為15萬美元。
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VERB
簽合同，訂立契約(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.
例句
You can contract with us to deliver your cargo...
你可以跟我們簽訂送貨合同。
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has already contracted to lease part of its collection to a museum in Japan.
波士頓美術博物館已經簽訂合同，將其部分藏品租借給日本一家博物館。
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V-ERG
(使)收縮;(使)縮小;(使)縮短
When something contracts or when something contracts it, it becomes smaller or shorter.
例句
Blood is only expelled from the heart when it contracts...
血液在心臟收縮的時候從心臟流出。
New research shows that an excess of meat and salt can contract muscles.
新的研究表明，過量食用肉類和鹽可能會導致肌肉收縮。
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VERB
(經濟、市場等)緊縮，縮小
When something such as an economy or market contracts, it becomes smaller.
例句
The manufacturing economy contracted in October for the sixth consecutive month.
10月，制造業經濟已經連續第6個月出現萎縮狀況。
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VERB
感染，患(病)
If you contract a serious illness, you become ill with it.
例句
He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion...
他因為輸血而感染了艾滋病。
Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer contracted by women.
卵巢癌是女性常患的第六大癌癥。
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VERB
訂立(婚約);簽訂(盟約等)
If you contract a marriage, alliance, or other relationship with someone, you arrange to have that relationship with them.
例句
She contracted a formal marriage to a British ex-serviceman.
她和一個英國退役軍人正式訂婚了。
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N-COUNT
買兇殺人的協議
If there is a contract on a person or on their life, someone has made an arrangement to have them killed.
例句
The convictions resulted in the local crime bosses putting a contract on him...
這些判罪導致當地犯罪團伙的老大們要雇兇殺他。
The police advised her to get out of town because there was a contract on her life.
警察建議她離開這個城市，因為有人雇殺手殺她。
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PHRASE
簽訂工作合同的
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.
例句
The director wanted Olivia de Havilland, then under contract to Warner Brothers.
導演想要當時簽約于華納兄弟娛樂公司旗下的奧利維婭·德哈維蘭出演。