| 词汇 | contracted |
| 释义 | contracted past simple and past participle ofcontract contract verb uk /kənˈtrækt/ us /kənˈtrækt/ contractverb (BECOME SMALLER)[ I or T ] to make or become shorter or narrower or generally smaller in size: （使）收缩；（使）缩小；（使）缩短 contract toIn spoken English, "do not" often contracts to "don't".在英语口语中，do not 常常缩略成 don't。 As it cooled, the metal contracted.金属冷却后收缩了。 [ I ] to become smaller in amount or quantity: （使）收缩，缩小 A recession is a period when the economy is contracting.经济衰退期是指经济萎缩的一个时期。 Agricultural output has contracted by 2.3 percent. 农业产量下降了百分之二点三。 to become smaller or less decreaseThe tests show that the tumour has decreased in size since we started treatment. lessenA healthy diet lessens your risk for cardiovascular disease. lowerThey've just lowered the age at which you can join. reduceThey've just reduced the price. bring downThey are bringing down their prices. dropStock prices dropped today after the company's announcement. Becoming and making smaller or less abridgment attenuate attenuated attenuating attenuation compress contraction damp dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off fall away reducible reduction resize retreat rightsize telescope tumble contractverb (BECOME ILL)C2[ T ]formal to catch or become ill with a disease: 患上，感染（疾病） He contracted malaria while he was travelling.他旅行时染上了疟疾。 Being & falling ill acquire be a martyr to somethingidiom be green around the gillsidiom be hangingidiom be out of sortsidiom bring contract declension develop lay someone up martyr not a hundred percentidiom pick pick someone/something up predisposed serious sicken strike succumb upset contractverb (AGREEMENT)C2[ I or T ] to make a legal agreement with someone to do work or to have work done for you: （与…）订立合同;（与…）订契约 [ + to infinitive ]Our company was contracted to build shelters for the homeless.我们公司刚刚签订合同，为无家可归的人建造收容所。 Business - general words addressable addressable market Age of Exploration amortizable anti-commercial contestable contract in/out contract something out contractual contractually importation in business initial public offering IPO lean the tertiary sector time-and-motion study trade secret transact triple play Phrasal verbscontract in/out contract something out Examples of contractedcontracted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. These workers then relay the information (by fax) to the referral units of the contracted agencies. This picture derived from marriages contracted is supported by other data included surveys of marriages (or other stable unions) actually in force in particular communities. The number of pubilles and the nature of their marriage settlements they contracted has been calculated by using two different sources. It narrows the subterms at the same positions that are contracted by the reduction using the same rewrite rules. For a given standard reduction derivation its lifted narrowing derivation is not necessarily that in which only 'needed' narrowable terms are contracted. Within that contracted sector, cotton has lost much acreage to new crops. Text-figure 2 shows an increasing divorce trend for marriages contracted in the different 5-year periods. In the old kingdom, everything vanished and contracted. He contracted laryngeal cancer aged 32 and underwent a laryngectomy. These normalizing functions are defined in terms of simpler detourcontraction functions, where only detours of particular ordinal-levels are contracted. Systems can also be heated or cooled, expanded and contracted, pressurised or exploded. The kingdom in time failed to expand further, and indeed contracted as land was lost through wars. Because bureaucracies know more than their principals about the work they have been ' contracted' to do, information is asymmetrical. Both, however, were originally contracted for dates preceding those of the festivities they eventually adorned. Even ejidatarios of modest means contracted mariachi groups that played all night long for them, whilst drinking beer until they fell asleep at their table. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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