contracting

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


1. N-COUNT 合同;契约
   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.
   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。
2. VERB 签合同，订立契约(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.
   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。
3. V-ERG (使)收缩;(使)缩小;(使)缩短
   When something contracts or when something contracts it, 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。
4. VERB (经济、市场等)紧缩，缩小
   When something such as an economy or market contracts, 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。
5. VERB 感染，患(病)
   If you contract a 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。
6. VERB 订立(婚约);签订(盟约等)
   If you contract a 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。
7. N-COUNT ***的协议
   If there is a contract on a 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。
8. PHRASE 签订工作合同的
   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.
   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。

1. I don't want to be associated with your scheme; I'm contracting out.
   我不想参与你们的计划；我要退出。
2. This example explores a simplified database that keeps track of the daily activities of an IT specialists contracting company.
   此示例研究了一个简单的数据库，它保持了对某个ITspecialistscontractingcompany日常活动的追踪。
3. As the application heap requirements change, the GC can respond by expanding or contracting the heap.
   随着应用程序程序堆需求的变化，GC可以通过扩大和收缩堆做出反应。
4. A working code should be formulated for treaty bodies to strengthen communication and dialogue with Contracting Parties.
   应制定公约机构的工作准则，加强公约机构与缔约国的交流与对话。
5. An animal's heart keeps up the circulation of the blood by alternately contracting and expanding.
   动物的心脏通过交替收缩和扩张保持血液循环。
6. The other contracting party becomes liable to the agent on the contract.
   另一方缔约当事人对代理人负有合同责任。
7. GATT had "contracting parties", underscoring the fact that officially GATT was a legal text.
   关贸总协定有“缔约方”，强调了关贸总协定正式而言是一个法律文本。
8. Form of international contracting and subcontracting
   国际承包和分包形式
9. They also examined patients from both rural and urban areas suspected of contracting the disease.
   他们还检验了来自可能与疾病有接触的城市和乡村的病人。
10. The contract theory of economies holds that market, firms and government all embody certain contracting relations.
    摘要契约经济理论认为，市场、企业和政府都体现于某种契约关系。
11. The act of contracting or the state of being contracted.
    收缩收缩的行为或被缩小（短）的状态。
12. Under Design-build general contracting mode, contractor takes great risk.
    在设计-建造总承包模式下，承包商承担的风险非常大。
13. Capable of contracting or being contracted.
    能够收缩或者已经收缩了。
14. Each Contracting Party shall apply the measures required toimplement the present Convention to all.
    每一缔约国应将为实施本公约所必要的措施应用于。
15. Without a contract or agreement to bind the contracting parties, any international business or transaction would be impossible.
    如果没有合同或协议的约束签约双方的行为，任何国际间的贸易往来是不可能进行的。
16. The term "territory" designates the land territory and territorial waters of each of the Contracting Parties.
    “领土”一词系指缔约任何一方的领陆和领水。
17. Fourth, overseas project contracting and labor service have developed swiftly.
    四是对外承包工程和劳务合作迅速发展。
18. The contracted interest refers to that existing between the contracting parties in the process of concluding a contract.
    缔约利益是指缔约磋商当事人在合同缔结过程中存在着的一种特殊利益，其具有实存性、绝对性的特点。
19. To work hard to develop overseas project contracting and labor cooperation;
    大力发展对外承包工程和劳务合作；
20. Each Contracting State shall apply the provisions of this Convention to the Bills of Lading mentioned above.
    每个缔约国应将本公约的各项规定适用于上述提单。
21. "Contracting Party" means any State or intergovernmental organization party to this Treaty;
    缔约方指加入本条约的任何国家或政府间组织；
22. In management contracting firms sell their management skill rather than their products.
    在合同管理中，公司出售的是他们的管理技术，而不是他们的产品。
23. The provisions of this Convention shall apply to all bills of lading issued in any of the contracting States.
    第十条本公约和各项规定，适用于在任何缔约国所签发的一切提单。
24. Their foreign markets are contracting.
    他们的国外市场越来越小了。
25. Among the40 Contracting Parties to the Convention there are rich and poor countries from all regions of the world.
    公约的40个缔约方中有来自世界各区域的富裕和贫穷的国家。
26. Contract law should encourage contracting parties to maximize the contract total surplus.
    合同法应该激励当事人最大化合同剩余的行为。
27. The investigation in the compare law would help us perfect our legal system of compulsory contracting.
    通过比较法上的考察，为完善我国的强制缔约制度发挥启示作用。
28. Information Management in International Construction Engineering Contracting after China s WTO Entry;
    入世后中国建筑业国际工程承包中的信息管理电子和电机工程协人类特点的机器人国际会议。
29. Industry-is the business's industry expanding or contracting?
    工业是商业的扩大或承包业？
30. Any Contracting Party shall comply with the provisions of the Paris Convention which concern marks.
    任何缔约方均应遵守《巴黎公约》中有关商标的条款。

noun

1. becoming infected
   1. catching cold is sometimes unavoidable
   2. the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic

   Synonym:    catching