contracts

基本解释

• n. [经] 合同；[法] 契约（contract的复数形式）
• v. 使收缩；缩小；订契约（contract的第三人称单数形式）

词源解说

• 14世纪初期进入英语，直接源自拉丁语的contractus：com (一起） + trahere (画）。

同根派生

用法辨析

v. (动词)

• contract作“订契约”解时,指双方为共同利益所吸引。用作及物动词时可接名词或动词不定式作宾语; 用作不及物动词接for可表示“承包”“录入”; 接in可表示“承诺加入”; 接with可表示“与…订合约”。
• contract作“缩小”解时,指由于内部的力量,使物体的范围和结构收缩集中,多用作不及物动词,引申可表示缩写,这时常接介词to。也可用作及物动词接名词或代词作宾语。
• contract用作不及物动词时,可表示“订合同,订约”,后面常接介词with; 与介词for连用表示原因或目的。
• contract作“感染疾病”或“染上恶习”解时是及物动词，接名词或代词作宾语。
• contract指“合同”时，不能与动词pay搭配，因合同不能支付人任何东西，只是承诺支付，可用assign与其搭配。

英汉例句

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

• Earthworms can contract.
  蚯蚓能缩小。

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• They've contracted an agreement.
  他们缔结了一项协议。

S+～+to- v

• They have contracted to build a railway across Africa.
  他们已立约承建一条穿越非洲的铁路。

用作名词 (n.)

• Once you have reached formal agreement, you should enter into a contract with the other party.
  你一旦达成正式协议,就应该和对方签订合同。

词组短语

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• contract one 's brows 皱眉头
• contract the book 约稿
• contract a project 承包工程

～+副词

• contract advantageously 有利地承包
• contract legally 合法承包
• contract physically 自然地订立合约

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• kntrktkntrkt
• If you contract with someone to do something, you legally agree to do it for them or for them to do it for you.
• When something contracts or when something contracts it, it becomes smaller or shorter.
• contraction
• When something such as an economy or market contracts, it becomes smaller.
• If you contract a serious illness, you become ill with it.
• 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.

专业释义

法学

• 契约

  Chapter II is about research of the contracts of test action.
  第二章为示范诉讼契约制度研究。

• 合同法

经济学

• 契约

  Venture capital contracts are important means to resolve these problems.
  风险投资契约是解决这些问题的重要手段。

• 合同

  Venture capital contracts are different from the ordinary financal contracts.
  风险资本合同不同普通的融资合同。