contracted

英 [kənˈtræktɪd]

美 [kənˈtræktɪd]

v.  (使)收缩，缩小; 感染(疾病); 得(病); 与…订立合同(或契约)
contract的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：contracted　过去式：contracted　

BNC.21631 / COCA.23163

柯林斯词典

The noun is pronounced /'kɒntrækt/. The verb is pronounced /kən'trækt/. 名词读作 /'kɒntrækt/，动词读作 /kən'trækt/。


• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• 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.
  1. You can contract with us to deliver your cargo...
     你可以跟我们签订送货合同。
  2. 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。
• V-ERG (使)收缩;(使)缩小;(使)缩短
  When somethingcontractsor when somethingcontractsit, it becomes smaller or shorter.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB (经济、市场等)紧缩，缩小
  When something such as an economy or marketcontracts, it becomes smaller.
  1. 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。
• VERB 感染，患(病)
  If youcontracta serious illness, you become ill with it.
  1. He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion...
     他因为输血而感染了艾滋病。
  2. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

adj

• reduced in size or pulled together
  1. the contracted pupils of her eyes

双语例句

• One of our neighbouring countries has contracted an alliance with another country.
  我们的一个邻国和另一国订立了联盟。
• The patient has contracted a fatal illness. There is little chance of his recovery.
  这个病人已病入膏肓，没有多少痊愈的希望了。
• When Barclays Bank contracted out its cleaning, the new company was cheaper.
  当巴克莱银行外包其结算业务后，新公司的价格更为便宜。
• There is a strong possibility that the cat contracted the condition by eating contaminated pet food.
  猫很有可能是吃了受污染的宠物食品而染上这种疾病的。
• The government of Sierra Leone has contracted us.
  塞拉利昂政府和我们签了合同。
• He contracted a rare form of cancer
  他得了一种罕见的癌症。
• They contracted a trade agreement with Japan.
  他们和日本订立了一项贸易协定。
• The woman claims that she contracted a form of marriage with the prisoner, who already has a wife.
  这位妇女声称她与这个囚犯曾订立婚约，但他已经有了妻子。
• They contracted with that factory for ten lathes.
  他们和那家工厂立约购买10台车床。
• The two business contracted a merger.
  这两家公司签约合并为一家。