contract
US /'kɑ:ntrækt/
・UK /'kɒntrækt/
A1 初級英檢初級多益
v.t./i.動詞 (及物/不及物)染上（疾病等）
Do you know what to do if you contract yellow fever?
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)合約
He signed a five-year contract with FC Barcelona
v.t./i.動詞 (及物/不及物)合意；同意
If I contract to work 50 hours a week I’d need a salary increase
v.t./i.動詞 (及物/不及物)萎縮
During this procedure your muscles contract as if you were doing exercises
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)殺人合約
I think somebody took out a contract on him, as he had enough enemies who wanted to kill him
v.t./i.動詞 (及物/不及物)減少...的數量
The economy will contract by 1% next year
v.t./i.動詞 (及物/不及物)縮寫
In spoken English, 'cannot' is often contracted to 'can't'
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戒掉中式英文！學會外國人真正的說話方式，讓你的英語更道地（If you want to sound like a native English speaker, stop saying phrases like this）
- So instead of saying "I should have known better," say "I should have known better." "I should have known better." We really contract these words, "should have," into "shoulda." "I should have known better." You may also hear "should have." "I should have known better." They're both variations on the same expression.
所以這是一個你可以經常使用的句子。
- "I shoulda known better.." We really contract these words, "should have," into "shoulda."
「我早該明白的。」我們把 "should have" 大幅縮讀成 "shoulda"。
【日常對話】這才是真正的日常英文！跟美國女生用英文閒聊 (【日常英会話】これが本当の日常英会話。アメリカ人女性と英語で雑談)
- I have a contract for two years with them.
我與他們簽了兩年的合同。
- I have a contract for two years with them.
我與他們簽了兩年的合同。
人生不是為了快樂！ (Life is Not About Being Happy)
- But this doesn't perhaps have to be the measure of everything. We don't need to be constantly offended by our agitations. Our day-to-day troubles don't have to be the yardstick by which we judge the value of our lives. Given where we've come from and how we're constituted, we were never going to be happy in any obvious way. But perhaps a good life can in the end be compatible with being fairly perturbed most days of the week. Perhaps it doesn't matter that a relationship has failed once more. Perhaps it isn't appalling that our business doesn't deliver us the returns we might have had in our old job. We've stretched ourselves, we've learned to raise our voices, we've developed courage. We don't have to see marks of grief and trouble as some kind of a violation of a pristine contract, but as the logical and immovable consequences of our stubborn and subtle natures interacting with the complexities of existence. We're sometimes frightened into reorienting our lives by being asked to contemplate how we might feel about them from the vantage point of our deathbeds. But if on this bed we were to look back at a rollercoaster of emotions and events, we might have got married for the fifth time recently, we might smile to ourselves and, to the beeping of the heart monitor beside us, say with wisdom and compassion, it wasn't a calm life for sure, it wasn't for the most part even a happy one, but heaven knows it was a truly and properly interesting one. And with this as our measure, we might meet our end with all the satisfaction and self-acceptance we could hope for.
但這也許並不是衡量一切的標準。我們不需要總是被自己的躁動所冒犯。我們的日常煩惱不必成為我們判斷人生價值的標尺。鑑於我們的出身和構成，我們永遠不會有明顯的幸福。但是，也許美好的生活最終可以與一週中大多數日子的焦慮相容。也許一段感情再次失敗並不重要。也許，我們的事業沒有給我們帶來在以前的工作中可能得到的回報並不令人震驚。我們拓展了自己，我們學會了發出自己的聲音，我們鼓起了勇氣。我們不必把悲傷和煩惱的印記看作是對純潔契約的某種違反，而應看作是我們頑固而微妙的天性與複雜的生存環境相互作用所產生的合乎邏輯的、不可動
- We do not have to see marks of grief and trouble as some kind of a violation of a pristine contract, but
運動對長壽的好處大公開！ (The benefits of exercise for longevity)
- so you have to you have to have every aspect of the motor control Coordination ability to dissipate force ability to receive force Ability to balance motor, you know There's so much that goes in disability that it I think got a full half chapter in the book And it's far and away the most complicated to explain, but it's really obvious to see it when it's not there So, you know, this is every one of us is lacking in stability and it was the biggest Re-education for me as I pivoted to this way of training so it's it's everything from learning how to appropriately pressurize your intra-abdominal space to how to Unlock your ribs maintain an appropriate center of gravity how to be able to Isometrically contract muscles as necessary how to be able to do it under control how to have good foot mechanics, right?
所以，你必須具備運動控制的各個方面 協調能力 消力能力 受力能力 平衡能力 你知道，殘疾的原因太多了，我想這在書中有整整半章的篇幅，而且這是最複雜的解釋，但當它不存在時，它真的很明顯，所以，你知道、這就是我們每個人都缺乏的穩定性 這是我轉向這種訓練方式時最大的再教育 所以從學習如何適當地給腹內空間加壓 到如何鎖住肋骨 保持適當的重心
- Um, so it's, it's everything from learning how to appropriately pressurize your intra-abdominal space to how to, um, unlock your ribs, maintain an appropriate center of gravity, how to be able to isometrically contract muscles as necessary, how to be able to do it under control, how to have good foot mechanics, right?
蘋果如何稱霸日本市場！ (How Apple Dominated Japan)
- Offering an iPhone for free with a two-year contract.
提供兩年合同的免費iPhone。
- that worked out well for Apple, since they ran the most aggressive mobile phone promotion in the country's history to attract more users, offering an iPhone for free with a two-year contract.
但蘋果的戰略很重要，原因有二。首先，是許多分析師不認為預計iPhone將吸引日本客戶。
川普痛批「取消文化」卻慶祝柯爾伯被停播！ (Trump, who bemoaned cancel culture, celebrates Colbert's cancellation)
- His contract is a payout contract through a transaction where there's a change of control.
好吧，讓我們來談談實際發生的情況。一個有 40 年曆史的特許經營權，損失了 4620 萬美元。
- His contract is a payout contract through a transaction where there's a change of control.
好吧，讓我們來談談實際發生的情況。一個有 40 年曆史的特許經營權，損失了 4620 萬美元。
超實用！專業商務英文：談判必學單字！ (Professional & Business English: Negotiating Vocabulary)
- Now, if you're buying a car, a used car, then yes, you can negotiate a good price or you can negotiate some conditions and terms, but again, this is mostly for when you negotiate over a contract for work or to buy a lot of products from a company or to do some deal, So, a lot of these words and expressions you're going to hear quite often in this context and you're going to use a lot of these words as well.
現在，如果你要買一輛車，一輛二手車，那麼是的，你可以協商一個好的價格，或者你可以協商一些條件和條款，但同樣，這主要是針對你就工作合同或從一家公司購買大量產品或做一些交易進行協商的時候。
- But again, this is mostly for when you negotiate over a contract for work or to buy a lot of products from a company or to do some deal, etc.
現在，如果你說的是某樣東西的成本，它可能是價格，也可能只是條款和條件。
ChatGPT 是如何讓 OpenAI 成為最有價值的 AI 新創公司？ (How ChatGPT Made OpenAI One Of The Most Valuable AI Startups)
- Brockman, two of the founders, for breach of contract and fiduciary duty.
布羅克曼（Brockman），兩位創始人，控告他們違反合同和信託責任。
- Experts I spoke with at the time said it was a pretty questionable legal foundation because there was never a formal contract that was signed by all the parties involved.
當時與我交談過的專家說，這是一個相當有問題的法律基礎，因為從來沒有一份由所有相關方簽署的正式合同。
為什麼波音公司花了十年時間才成功送太空人到國際太空站？ (Why It Took Boeing A Decade To Launch NASA Astronauts On Starliner)
- Boeing's Starliner is a human-grade space capsule designed to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station under NASA's commercial crew contract.
波音公司的 "星際客機"（Starliner）是一個載人級太空艙，旨在根據美國國家航空航天局（NASA）的商業乘員合同，運送太空人往返國際空間站。
- Boeing's Starliner is a human-grade space capsule designed to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station under NASA's commercial crew contract.
2011 年，航天飛機退役後，美國國家航空航天局只能依靠唯一一個能將機組人員安全送入低地球軌道並返回的實體，那就是俄羅斯。