Contract

(noun.) a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid.

(noun.) a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law.

(noun.) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make.

(verb.) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; 'He got AIDS'; 'She came down with pneumonia'; 'She took a chill'.

(verb.) enter into a contractual arrangement.

(verb.) make smaller; 'The heat contracted the woollen garment'.

编辑:兰尼

• I therefore myself dismissed the contractor and made a new contract with a native, at more than double the original price. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The spasm causes the muscles of the jaw to contract very quickly and as soon as they are contracted, they let the jaw fall again of its own weight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In fear that this subterfuge might be challenged, he gave Benjamin a discharge of his indentures, but at the same time s igned with him a new secret contract. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Here is my Hotel-note to be paid, according to contract. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I was there when Finito had a contract for three fights at the Feria. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• They are all three paid for their work according to the contract which they may happen to make with their respective superiors. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I endeavored to sell my lighting patents in different countries of Europe, and made a contract with a couple of men. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Except bills of exchange, and some other mercantile bills, all other deeds, bonds, and contracts, are subject to a stamp duty. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When the steam pressure varies in this flat tube its coil expands or contracts, and in moving the index hand over the scale indicates the degree of pressure. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The answer is that justice is of use in contracts, and contracts are money partnerships. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He made short-term contracts, and tried in every way to keep control of the whole system in the hands of the parent company. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn, profoundly attentive, throws this off with a shrug of self-depreciation and contracts his eyebrows a little more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He received other contracts, and eventually the national government came to rely upon his factory for a large part of its war supplies. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Gould was pounding the Western Union on the Stock Exchange, disturbing its railroad contracts, and, being advised by his lawyers that this patent was of great value, bought it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Secondly, In a private copartnery, each partner is bound for the debts contracted by the company, to the whole extent of his fortune. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The spasm causes the muscles of the jaw to contract very quickly and as soon as they are contracted, they let the jaw fall again of its own weight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• What is called the unfunded debt of Great Britain, is contracted in the former of those two ways. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The spikes had never looked so sharp and cruel, nor the bars so heavy, nor the prison space so gloomy and contracted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Pardon me again--has contracted your displeasure, how? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• At the sound of his blind, vindictive voice, the laughter suddenly left the girls, and their hearts contracted with contempt. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It took him at least ten years to pay off his college bills contracted during his father's lifetime. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There are two ways of contracting a chimney; one by contracting the opening _before_ the fire, the other by contracting the funnel _above_ the fire. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• She appears to regard their number and value as evidence of the disinterested affection of the contracting parties. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• A vulcanite or other strip is easily affected by differences of temperature, expanding and contracting by reason of the minutest changes. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A sinking fund, though instituted for the payment of old, facilitates very much the contracting of new debts. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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