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

• How many of the companies have contracted in so far?
  到目前为止已有多少公司承诺加入呢？
• 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。
• 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。
• The city council has already contracted out the work on the new road.
  市政会已把这条新路的铺设工作包出去了。
• In her old age, my aunt had contracted a strong friendship with a retired sea-captain.
  我姨妈在老年时和一个退休了的船长结下了深厚的友谊。
• Our shop contracted with a clothing firm to buy100 coats a week.
  我们商店和一家服装公司签订合同，每周从那里买一百件外套。
• 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。
• I seemed to have contracted the stomach problem
  我好像得了胃病。
• He contracted a rare form of cancer
  他得了一种罕见的癌症。
• He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion
  他因为输血而感染了艾滋病。