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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John Mangles and his companions were lost in wonder when they saw Glenarvan's features contract and grow pale, and the glass drop from his hands.
-- Ayrton collected himself, for an instant, and then said:"My Lord, it is usual for witnesses to be present at every contract or transaction between two parties.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day they had a stroke of luck: one of the boarding-masters got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from Madagascar round the Cape of Good Hope, and they spent several days on a plank hanging over the side, covering the rusty hull with paint.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quilp would certainly suffer nobody to contract him but the boy, and the boy would assuredly not have submitted to be so knocked about by anybody but Quilp, when he had the power to run away at any time he chose.
-- Still casting about for some plausible means of accounting for their non-appearance, and of persuading himself that they must soon return, he bent his steps towards home, intending to finish the task which the sudden recollection of his contract had interrupted, and then to sally forth once more to seek his fortune for the day.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the following day, after the contract was signed, Nekhludoff, with an unpleasant feeling of having left something undone, seated himself in the "dandy" three-horse team and took leave of the peasants, who were shaking their heads in doubt and dissatisfaction.
-- The resistance was particularly hot when Nekhludoff mentioned that he would draw a contract which he himself and they would have to sign.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this stranger fixed upon an object, his eyebrows met, his large eyelids closed around so as to contract the range of his vision, and he looked as if he magnified the objects lessened by distance, as if he pierced those sheets of water so opaque to our eyes, and as if he read the very depths of the seas.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your contract here only calls for thirty dollars a week for the next three months.
-- Carrie looked and beheld a new contract made out like the other one, with the exception of the new figures of salary and time.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Marionette could have told, then and there, all he knew about the shameful contract between the dog and the Weasels, but thinking of the dead dog, he said to himself: "Melampo is dead.
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