verb 下载 🔗分享 收缩，缩小 To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. Examples : "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。 physiology medicine anatomy biology 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
verb 下载 🔗分享 缩写，简写 (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. Examples : "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"。 grammar linguistics language 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
verb 下载 🔗分享 签订合同，订约。 To enter into a contract with. Examples : "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。 business law economy 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
verb 下载 🔗分享 签订，订立。 To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. Examples : "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。 business law 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
verb 下载 🔗分享 签订，订立，缔结 To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain. Examples : "to contract for carrying the mail" 签订运送信件的合同 business law economy 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
verb 下载 🔗分享 招致， 招惹。 To bring on; to incur; to acquire. Examples : "She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens." 她十几岁的时候染上了吸烟的习惯。 business economy finance 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
verb 下载 🔗分享 感染，患上。 To gain or acquire (an illness). Examples : "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。 medicine disease biology 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
verb 下载 🔗分享 皱缩，收缩 To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. Examples : "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。 physiology anatomy body 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
verb 下载 🔗分享 订婚，订亲 To betroth; to affiance. Examples : "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。 family tradition 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
noun 下载 🔗分享 收缩，萎缩. The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction. Examples : "the contractings of his muscles" 他肌肉的收缩 physiology medicine body process 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
noun 下载 🔗分享 承包工作，合同工。 Work done on a contract basis. Examples : "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。 business work economy 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
adjective 下载 🔗分享 收缩的，缩小的。 Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area. Examples : "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。 physics science 与AI对话词汇游戏阅读练习
