| 单词 | contract |
| 释义 | con·tract I. 1. a. b. c. archaic < no State shall … pass any bill of attainder … or law impairing the obligation of contracts — U.S. Constitution > d. 2. obsolete 3. 4. 5. card games a. b. contract bridge c. 6. 7. < one contract in wheat is 5,000 bushels > 8. II. < a contract noun > : shrunken, narrowed III. transitive verb 1. a. < contracted an engagement with a neighboring … farmer — Rose Macaulay > : place under contract b. < contracted his daughter with the son of an old friend > 2. a. < contract a disease > < contracted pneumonia > b. < contract an obligation > < contracted numerous debts > 3. a. < the town's limits had not been contracted > b. obsolete c. < a frown contracted his brow > d. < contract his armies into one force > 4. < contract a muscle > : cause to shrink < reexpand the world which Bacon had so effectively contracted — J.W.Krutch > 5. intransitive verb 1. < responsible for contracting with local institutions for the confinement … of Federal offenders — Current Biography > < contract for the supply of meat to the barracks > 2. < iron contracts in cooling > : become reduced in compass, duration, or length < years contracting to a moment — William Wordsworth > specifically of a muscle or muscle fiber Synonyms: < the range of classical reading might extend, or from time to time contract — H.O.Taylor > < since World War II gold mining has expanded considerably while supplies of Negro labor have been contracting — New York Times > < he sank back into his chair, seeming to contract, to wither before their shocked eyes — Angus Mowat > condense indicates a reduction of space occupied with resulting greater compactness of original material < condense gas into a liquid > < in so far as we can condense Langland's message into a few words, we must sum it up as a long search for three degrees of excellence in life — Do Well, Do Better, and Do Best — G.G.Coulton > compress indicates a pressing, often against resistance, into smaller compass and definite shape < great depths of snow are accumulated, and this weight causes lower layers to compress and form ice — Patricia Spring > < one of those tiny handkerchiefs, compressed into the shape of a small puffball by being clutched in the palm of a feverish hand — J.C.Powys > < I shall make no attempt to compress a history of modern philosophy within the limits of one lecture — A.N.Whitehead > constrict indicates a binding, squeezing, or gripping contracting, often forced, onerous, or painful < the education of this promising young aristocrat constricted by the anti-intellectual traditions of his class excluded him from “the two great conceptions of our day … artistic integrity … and … social justice” — Harry Levin > < from the health point of view garments should in general never be so tight as to constrict the tissues — Morris Fishbein > deflate indicates contracting brought about by the exhausting of air or gas that fills or inflates it < deflate a balloon > < in his lecture on temperance he deflated those who felt too superior to associate with a reformed drunkard — Ruth P. Randall > shrink indicates a contracting of length, scope, or volume but may suggest the contracting of wet fabrics < as colonial empires shrink, Europe's horizons will too — A.E.Stevenson †1965 > < in 1906 he met his first sharp reverse in losses incurred by the San Francisco earthquake, but it was not until some seven years later that his modest fortune began to shrink — G.C.Knight > Synonym: see in addition promise. IV. < the mob put out a contract on the man's life — Patricia Burstein > |
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