verb🔗Share收缩，缩小 To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen."Example: "As the weather cooled down, the metal pipe started contracting, making a creaking sound." "随着天气转凉，金属管开始收缩，发出吱吱嘎嘎的声音。physiologymedicineanatomybiologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share缩写，简写 (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one."When writing quickly, people often start contracting words like "cannot" to "can't." "快速书写时，人们常常会缩写单词，比如把 "cannot" 简写成 "can't"。grammarlinguisticslanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share签订合同，订约。 To enter into a contract with."The company is contracting a new marketing team. "该公司正在和一家新的营销团队签订合同。businesslaweconomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share签订，订立。 To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for."The company is contracting with a local farm to supply fresh produce for the office cafeteria. "该公司正在和当地农场签订合同，为办公室餐厅供应新鲜农产品。businesslawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share签订，订立，缔结 To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain."to contract for carrying the mail"签订运送信件的合同businesslaweconomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share招致， 招惹。 To bring on; to incur; to acquire."She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens."她十几岁的时候染上了吸烟的习惯。businesseconomyfinanceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share感染，患上。 To gain or acquire (an illness)."After visiting the hospital, she worried about contracting a cold. "去医院探望之后，她担心自己会感染上感冒。medicinediseasebiologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share皱缩，收缩 To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit."The old leather of the baseball glove was contracting and wrinkling under the hot sun. "旧棒球手套上的皮革在烈日下开始皱缩，起了褶皱。physiologyanatomybodyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share订婚，订亲 To betroth; to affiance."Long ago, families were often contracting their children to be married at a young age. "很久以前，很多家庭常常在孩子们很小的时候就给他们订亲了。familytraditionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share收缩，萎缩. The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction."the contractings of his muscles"他肌肉的收缩physiologymedicinebodyprocessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share承包工作，合同工。 Work done on a contract basis."Her steady income comes from contracting; she takes on project-based work for several different companies. "她的稳定收入来自于承包工作；她以合同工的身份为几家不同的公司做项目。businessworkeconomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share收缩的，缩小的。 Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area."The contracting spiral notebook was hard to use because the metal rings were bending inwards. "这个正在收缩变形的螺旋笔记本很难用，因为金属环向内弯曲。physicsscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
