contract是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 合同, 契约; v. 缔结; 负(债) ; 感染(疾病) ; 使皱缩，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：
-- 'Our contract is an old one.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In all these instances the husband had practically ceded or sold his unfaithful wife, and the very party which, being in fault, had not the right to contract a fresh marriage, had formed counterfeit, pseudo-matrimonial ties with a self-styled husband.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he had no contract with Dawson Hunziker.
-- And he had no contract with Hunziker.
-- You see," said Gottlieb, "I haf no contract here!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was particularly irritated by the owner of the flat which had been taken in view of his approaching marriage and was being redecorated at his own expense; the owner, a rich German tradesman, would not entertain the idea of break-ing the contract which had just been signed and insisted on the full forfeit money, though Pyotr Petrovitch would be giving him back the flat practically redecorated.
-- Would you believe that this honest and jealous woman, after many scenes of hysterics and reproaches, condescend- ed to enter into a kind of contract with me which she kept throughout our married life?
-- After many tears an unwritten contract was drawn up be- tween us: first, that I would never leave Marfa Petrovna and would always be her husband; secondly, that I would never absent myself without her permission; thirdly, that I would never set up a permanent mistress; fourthly, in return for this, Marfa Petrovna gave me a free hand with the maid-servants, but only with her secret knowledge; fifthly, God forbid my falling in love with a woman of our class; sixthly, in case I which God forbid should be visited by a great serious passion I was bound to reveal it to Marfa Petrovna.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As you certainly would be, in any contract youshould make for yourself.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world 104 Emmaas appears at first; for a very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For did not the Georgia contract holders includemen from the very best families?
-- But there were so many old men and youngboys, and the sight of them made her heart contract with pity and with fear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hereupon, a choleric gentleman, who had taken the fourth place on that seat, flew into a most violent passion, and said that it was a breach of contract to mix him up with such villainous company, and that it was poisonous, and pernicious, and infamous, and shameful, and I don't know what else.
-- So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, 'that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobil-ity, among us, was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that, as soon as years 326 Gulliver's Travelswill permit, they consume their vigour, and contract odi-ous diseases among lewd females; and when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides her consideration money, her daily contract included meals.
-- Then you'll find out what Department the contract was in, and then you'll find out all about it there.'
-- Nobody's WeaknessThe time being come for the renewal of his acquaintance with the Meagles family, Clennam, pursuant to contract made between himself and Mr Meagles within the precincts of Bleeding Heart Yard, turned his face on a certain Saturday towards Twickenham, where Mr Meagles had a cottage-residence of his own.
-- Yes, there was Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle, who had risen to official heights on the wings of one indignant idea, and that was, My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance, of its people.
-- On this sublime discovery in the great art How not to do it, Lord Decimus had long sustained the highest glory of the Barnacle family; and let any ill-advised member of either House but try How to do it by bringing in a Bill to do it, that Bill was as good as dead and buried when Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle rose up in his place and solemnly said, soaring into indignant majesty as the Circumlocution cheering soared around him, that he was yet to be told, My Lords, that it behoved him as the Minister of this free country, to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance, of its people.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matters being thus amicably and satisfactorily arranged, the contract was solemnly ratified in another teacupful of the peppermint mixture; which was rendered the more necessary, by the flutter and agitation of the lady's spirits.
-- 'Rose, my own dear Rose!For years--for years--I have loved you; hoping to win my way to fame, and then come proudly home and tell you it had been pursued only for you to share; thinking, in my daydreams, how I would remind you, in that happy moment, of the many silent tokens I had given of a boy's attachment, and claim your hand, as in redemption of some old mute contract that had been sealed between us!That time has not arrived; but here, with not fame won, and no young vision realised, I offer you the heart so long your own, and stake my all upon the words with which you greet the offer.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He answered, with a great deal of candour and ingen-uousness, that their condition was so miserable, and that they were so sensible of it, that he believed they would abhor the thought of using any man unkindly that should contrib-ute to their deliverance; and that, if I pleased, he would go to them with the old man, and discourse with them about it, and return again and bring me their answer; that he would make conditions with them upon their solemn oath, that they should be absolutely under my direction as their commander and captain; and they should swear upon the holy sacraments and gospel to be true to me, and go to such Christian country as I should agree to, and no other; and to be directed wholly and absolutely by my orders till they were landed safely in such country as I intended, and that he would bring a contract from them, under their hands, for that purpose.
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