contract
/kənˈtɹækt/ 动词 C1中文： 收缩、收紧、感染
- To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. · The snail’s body contracted into its shell.· to contract one’s sphere of action
- To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. · The word “cannot” is often contracted into “can’t”.
- To make an agreement or contract; to covenant. · The company contracted with the council to build 200 new houses.
- To enter into a contract with (someone or something). · We have just contracted new pest control services.
- To bring on; to incur; to acquire. · She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.· to contract a debt
- To gain or acquire (an illness).
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- To betroth; to affiance.
He/she/it contracts · 过去式 contracted · 过去分词 contracted · -ing形式 contracting
动词形式
- 原形
- contract
- He/she/it
- contracts
- 过去式
- contracted
- 过去分词
- contracted
- -ing形式
- contracting
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Gardiner would be prevented by business from setting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again within a month; and as that left too short a period for them to go so far, and see so much as they had proposed, or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour; and, according to the present plan, were to go no farther northward than Derbyshire.
A LION roaming by the seashore saw a Dolphin lift up its head out of the waves, and suggested that they contract an alliance, saying that of all the animals they ought to be the best friends, since the one was the king of beasts on the earth, and the other was the sovereign ruler of all the inhabitants of the ocean.
“So we have contracted our field of search to a large book, printed in double columns and in common use.”
They crossed it by a simple bridge, in character with the general air of the scene: it was a spot less adorned than any they had yet visited; and the valley, here contracted into a glen, allowed room only for the stream, and a narrow walk amidst the rough coppice-wood which bordered it.
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