In two thousand seven, the Yankees signed a ten-year contract with Alex Rodriguez for a record two hundred seventy-five million dollars.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

It has a very well-developed muscular tissue and its function is to contract and relax, contract and relax.

该肌肉组织非常发达,用来使心脏收缩,放松,收缩,放松

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to bring people on in short-term contract work.

关于雇佣短期合同工。

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In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

That would be putting it in a real frame and-- wouldn't that be more sensible, because you would be specifying the contract in real terms rather than money terms?

那样的话就是一种实物框架理念-,那样不是更合理吗，因为在你拟定合约时,会更倾向于用实物而非货币来计算？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It had to keep moving to reach San Francisco in twenty-five days as required by the government contract.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Or, if you don't believe Spinoza, if you don't believe his authority is sufficient, consider someone who you'll be reading in a couple of weeks, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from the Social Contract.

或者，假如你不相信斯宾诺莎，假如你不信,他的权威性，那么想一想几星期之后,你们将要读到的一个人，让·雅克·卢梭，在《社会契约论》中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The workers approved a two-year contract that will provide retirement pay, higher wages and paid holidays.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

We have to realize that people don't read all the fine print and don't understand -if you have a precisely written contract in legal language, maybe they don't get it.

大众不愿阅读也无法理解,那些晦涩的法律条文,一份由法律术语写成的合同,对大众来讲无异于一部天书

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But 62 percent of Thai workers are in the informal sector, such as contract workers,farmers, street hawkers, and motorcycle-taxi drivers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

If you buy a house and you don't pay the mortgage, the contract says you lose the house-- you're out--you've got to pay or it goes back to the mortgage originator.

如果你抵押贷款买房,却没有还房贷,贷款合同规定,你将被取消赎回权,失去房子,所以你必须偿还贷款,否则你的原始贷款人就会收回房子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And not only that, the utility must agree to a long-term contract that covers power generation costs, plus a decent profit.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

All of our texts that we will read--the Republic the Politics the Prince the Social Contract have different views on the qualities of statecraft and what are those qualities necessary to found and maintain states that we will be considering.

我们所有将阅读的教材中，包括《理想国》,《政治论》，《君主论》，《民约论》,都有不同的权术特性观点,哪些特性是建立及维持国家所必需,我们都将加以思量。

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So the Pentagon awarded a 4-billion-dollar contract to build a version with a lower center of gravity and improved suspension.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

In general,Germans want the social contract maintained and are willing to sacrifice to keep it - for themselves and future generations.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

If James remains a Cavalier, he can get a six-year contract worth about $125.5 million.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

A source of anger for many lawmakers at the hearing was a U.S.government contract for a so-called "virtual fence" monitoring system along the nearly 3200-kilometer U.S.-Mexico border.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

This week he signed a two-year contract with the North Melbourne club.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

The global consulting firm dropped Woods from his six-year endorsement contract.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Other opposition parties,rights groups, anti-corruption campaigners and the Nigerian Bar Association have criticized the government over its handling of the multi-million-dollar cash-for-contract scandal involving U.S.company Halliburton and top Nigerian officials.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18