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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then seated himself in the cen-ter of the cavern, grasping his remaining pistol with a hand convulsively clenched, while his contracted and frowning eye announced the sullen desperation of his purpose.
-- But when the last and humblest female of the tribe had joined in the wild and yet ordered array, the men of the Lenape contracted their circle, and formed again around the person of Uncas, as silent, as grave, and as mo-tionless as before.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only did the son not reform, but contracted another debt of a thousand rubles, and told his father that he did not care if he was driven from the house, since life at home was torture to him.
-- Her lips contracted with pleasure.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crew, perched in the ratlines, examined the horizon which contracted and darkened by degrees.
-- The Canadian and I took him up, and rubbed his contracted arms till he became sensible.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the sound of his blind, vindictive voice, the laughter suddenly left the girls, and their hearts contracted with contempt.
-- She looked up at him, and a slight sinister smile contracted her white face.
-- Birkin's heart contracted swiftly, in a sudden fire of bitterness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The broad stairs of his Roman palace were contracted in his failing sight to the narrow stairs of his London prison; and he would suffer no one but her to touch him, his brother excepted.
-- That he contracted Malaria Fever somewhere, either by travelling day and night to Rome, where, after all, he arrived too late to see poor dear papa before his death or under some other unwholesome circumstances is indubitable, if that is what you mean.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too, beneath the ship's water-line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowels' wards.
-- The strong vapor now completely filling the contracted hole, it began to tell upon him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this view, they contracted with the water-works to lay on an unlimited supply of water; and with a corn-factor to supply periodically small quantities of oatmeal; and issued three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll of Sundays.
-- He did so; and, as he placed the candlestick upon the table, saw that the Jew was gazing fixedly at him, with lowering and contracted brows, from the dark end of the room.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gardiner would be prevented by business from set-ting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again within a month, and as that left too short a period for them to go so far, and see so much as they had proposed, or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour, and, according to the present plan, were to go no farther northwards than Derbyshire.
-- They crossed it by a simple bridge, in character with the general air of the scene; it was a spot less adorned than any they had yet visited; and the valley, here contracted into a glen, allowed room only for the stream, and a nar-row walk amidst the rough coppice-wood which bordered it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may suppose, that having now lived almost four years in the Brazils, and beginning to thrive and prosper very well upon my plantation, I had not only learned the language, but had contracted acquaintance and friendship among my fellow-planters, as well as among the merchants at St. Salvador, which was our port; and that, in my discourses among them, I had frequently given them an account of my two voyages to the coast of Guinea: the manner of trading with the negroes there, and how easy it was to purchase upon the coast for trifles - such as beads, toys, knives, scissors, hatchets, bits of glass, and the like - not only gold-dust, Guinea grains, elephants' teeth, &c., but negroes, for the service of the Brazils, in great numbers.
-- Any one would think that in this state of complicated good fortune I was past running any more hazards - and so, indeed, I had been, if other circumstances had concurred; but I was inured to a wandering life, had no family, nor many relations; nor, however rich, had I contracted fresh acquaintance; and though I had sold my estate in the Bra-zils, yet I could not keep that country out of my head, and had a great mind to be upon the wing again; especially I could not resist the strong inclination I had to see my island, and to know if the poor Spaniards were in being there.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 49Unaccountable, however, as the circumstances of his release might appear to the whole family, it was certain that Edward was free; and to what purpose that freedom would be employed was easily pre-determined by all; for after experiencing the blessings of ONE imprudent engagement, contracted without his mother's consent, as he had already done for more than four years, nothing less could be expected of him in the failure of THAT, than the immediate contraction of another.
-- But that he was for ever inconsolable, that he fled from society, or contracted an habitual gloom of temper, or died of a broken heart, must not be depended on for he did neither.
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