Contracts

例句:

• Except bills of exchange, and some other mercantile bills, all other deeds, bonds, and contracts, are subject to a stamp duty. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When the steam pressure varies in this flat tube its coil expands or contracts, and in moving the index hand over the scale indicates the degree of pressure. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The answer is that justice is of use in contracts, and contracts are money partnerships. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He made short-term contracts, and tried in every way to keep control of the whole system in the hands of the parent company. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn, profoundly attentive, throws this off with a shrug of self-depreciation and contracts his eyebrows a little more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He received other contracts, and eventually the national government came to rely upon his factory for a large part of its war supplies. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Gould was pounding the Western Union on the Stock Exchange, disturbing its railroad contracts, and, being advised by his lawyers that this patent was of great value, bought it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In contracts, Socrates, justice is of use. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This is seen in narrow stove chimneys, when a _sacheverell_ or blower is used, which still more contracts the narrow opening. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A gentleman can have no feelings who contracts such a marriage,' flushes Podsnap. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And by contracts you mean partnerships? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He started enormous public works and particularly the construction of new roads, and he is accused of making a political use of the contracts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The opposition coach contracts for these two; and takes them cheap,' said Mr. Bumble. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• As the tire cools it contracts and fits the wheel closely. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If the heat is removed, the liquid cools, contracts, and slowly falls in the tube, resuming in time its original size or volume. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Contracts were made for mules at from eight to eleven dollars each. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Much as people's breaking promises and contracts and bargains of all sorts, makes good for MY trade. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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