4周搞定2000+托福核心词
concise = con(共同) + cise(切) = 共同切砍→简洁的
confederate = con(共同) + feder(联盟) + ate(形容词) = 共同联盟,联合的
abstract = abs(离去) + tract(拉) = 被拉开→心不在焉
abstraction = abs(离去) + tract(拉) + ion(表名词) = 被拉开→抽象
共同拉[回去]→收缩
contract
常考释义
As stars contracted, it was thought, they would get hotter and hotter, giving off light in the process.
人们认为，随着恒星收缩，它们会变得越来越热，在这个过程中它们会发光。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL50 P3n. 合同；契约
The company won a prestigious contract for work on Europe's tallest building.
这家公司赢得了一份极为重要的合同，参与建设欧洲最高的大厦。
That contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.
那个合同结果成了他的一个负担。
They're willing to sign you to a very lucrative contract.
他们想要用高价和你进行签约。
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The worker was bound to the master by a mutual contract that either one could repudiate, and the relationship was conceptualized as one of partnership.
工人和店主双方具有劳务关系，任一方都有权终止，这是合作关系中的一种。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL16 P1The batches, some of which contain thousands of tablets, consist for the most part of documents of the types just mentioned: bills, deliveries, receipts, inventories, loans, marriage contracts, divorce settlements, court judgments, and so on.
一批泥板可能有数千块，大多数是关于方才提到的几类事物的记录：账单、交付单据、收据、库存清单、贷款、婚姻证书、离婚协议、法院判决等等。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL46 P1Merchants publicly recorded their debts and contracts and received a league guarantee for them.
商人公开记录了他们的债务和合同，并获得了同盟为他们作担保。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL46 P2vt. 收缩;使缩小;使缩短
New research shows that an excess of meat and salt can contract muscles.
新的研究表明，过量食用肉类和盐可能会导致肌肉收缩。
But if the muscle’s contract, then the sack expands, and you can see the colors.
但是，如果肌肉一旦紧缩，色袋就会膨胀，你就会看到不同的颜色。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL17 L6As stars contracted, it was thought, they would get hotter and hotter, giving off light in the process.
人们认为，随着恒星收缩，它们会变得越来越热，在这个过程中它们会发光。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL50 P3Dried mud has cracks because when it dries it contracts, it shrinks.
干泥浆会有裂缝，因为当它变干的时候，它会收缩。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL49 L2vi. 收缩；缩小；缩短
Blood is only expelled from the heart when it contracts.
血液在心脏收缩的时候从心脏流出。
The inner zone, its nuclear fires no longer burning, will begin to collapse under the influence of its own weight and will contract into a tiny hot core, dense and dim.
在内部区域，太阳核心不再燃烧，在自身重力的影响下它将会开始崩塌，并收缩为一个微小而炽热的核心，密度很高，颜色昏暗。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL50 P3So it can contract into the shape of a little round stone, and sit perfectly still on the seafloor.
所以它能够将自身体积缩小到身边的一块小石头的大小，并且安稳地躺在海底。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL17 L6By about 1150, the Spanish had developed the first mill for making cheap paper (a word contracted from "papyrus", which became the standard term).
在大约1150年，西班牙已经建立了制造廉价纸的第一个工厂（paper是papyrus的缩写，现在已经变成了标准术语）。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL49 P2Then in winter the permafrost starts contracting again and the cracks open up even wider.
然后在冬季，永久冻土开始收缩，裂缝变得更大了。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL49 L2n. 婚约
She contracted a formal marriage to a British ex-serviceman.
她和一个英国退役军人正式订婚了。
vt. 感染，患(病)
He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion.
他因为输血而感染了艾滋病。
vt. 订立(婚约);签订(盟约等)
She contracted a formal marriage to a British ex-serviceman.
她和一个英国退役军人正式订婚了。
vi. 订契约；承包
We contracted with a local clothing firm for 400 shirts a month.
我们与当地一家服装公司立约每月订购400件衬衫。
contract with
承包；与…订有合约
labour contract
劳工合同
contract management
合同管理
breach of contract
违约；违反合同
contract negotiation
合同谈判
bilateral contract
双边契约
supplementary contract
补充契约
concession contract
特许经营权合约；租让制合同
abide by the contract
遵守合同
conclude a contract
订立合同
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