contracted是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 合同所规定的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was yet an upper staircase, of a steeper inclination and of contracted dimensions, to be ascended, before the garret story was reached.
-- They persisted in chang-ing colour sometimes, and they would be occasionally dilated and contracted by something like a faint pulsation; then, they gave a look of treachery, and cruelty, to the whole countenance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mouth stiffened, the muscles of the cheek contracted on the right side of her pale, nervous face.
-- His brows contracted at Katavasov's words and he said something else.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The storyof my supposed appetite getting wind among the outsidepassengers, they were merry upon it likewise; and asked mewhether I was going to be paid for, at school, as two brothers orthree, and whether I was contracted for, or went upon the regularterms; with other pleasant questions.
-- In fact, my dear Copperfield, Ihave entered into arrangements, by virtue of which I standpledged and contracted to our friend, Heep, to assist and serve himin the capacity of- and to be- his confidential clerk.'
-- Excellent fellow as I knew Traddles to be, and warmly attached tohim as I was, I could not help wishing, on that delicate occasion,that he had never contracted the habit of brushing his hair so veryupright.
-- But there was no vacancy for a tenor in the venerablePile for which this city is so justly eminent; and he has- in short, hehas contracted a habit of singing in public-houses, rather than insacred edifices.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poverty certainly has not contracted her mind: I really believe, if she had only a shilling in the world, she would be very likely to give away sixpence of it; and no-body is afraid of her: that is a great charm.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, but "She contracted a yawn to an inoffensive smallness, so that it was hardly ill-mannered at all.
-- One of the ewes here contracted its muscles horribly, extended itself, and jumped high into the air.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett said nothing but her eyes glittered and her heart contracted with a little pain.
-- Her throat suddenly contracted and she could say nothing more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I soon contracted expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that within a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous; but through good and evil I stuck to my books.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had not yet been a year in this country before I contracted such a love and venera-tion for the inhabitants, that I entered on a firm resolution never to return to humankind, but to pass the rest of my life among these admirable Houyhnhnms, in the contem-plation and practice of every virtue, where I could have no example or incitement to vice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit's Coriolanian nose underwent a slight expansion of the nostrils, and her black eyebrows contracted as she took a sip of tea.
-- Mrs. Sparsit took a little more tea; and, as she bent her again contracted eyebrows over her steaming cup, rather looked as if her classical countenance were invoking the infernal gods.
-- The wind was blowing again, the rain was beating on the house-tops, and the larger spaces through which he had strayed contracted to the four walls of his room.
-- I find, on reference to the figures, that a large proportion of these marriages are contracted between parties of very unequal ages, and that the elder of these contracting parties is, in rather more than three-fourths of these instances, the bridegroom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The contracted muscles of my throat relaxed--and the inflammation of my lips in some measure subsided.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pardon me again has contracted your displeasure, how?'
-- To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we were brought to a stand-still, to be unable to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity of many invalids, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all recluses.
-- 'Amy,' he resumed; 'your dear sister, our Fanny, has contracted ha hum a marriage, eminently calculated to extend the basis of our ha connection, and to hum consolidate our social relations.
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