While in high school, Roberto signed a contract to play baseball for the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican winter league.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

And so if you sign a contract with the government for millions of dollars, you have guarantee to get your dollars back, plus whatever profits they allowed in the contract.

所有如果你和政府签订了合约,做了一个百万的大单子，你能保证拿到钱，和其他的利润,在合同里规定的利润。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

On the other hand, if we had a quarter as much venture capital, I think that would be in the sense the world would contract too much.

换句话说，如果资金数是风险资本的四分之一，我想现在订立的合同,太多了。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

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

You put some inputs in, it has a contract that says if you put the right kind of inputs in you'll get a specific output coming out, but you don't have to know what's inside of that box.

你可以将输入一些内容,它相当于一个条件合约,如果你的输入是正确的，你就能得到特定的输出,但是你不知道盒子里面有些什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Suppose they have a written contract, or even an unwritten contract, what enforces the contract for colluding firms or crooks in jail?

假如他们签了一份书面协议,或干脆口头的,他们怎么强制履行呢

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The company is said to have never broken its contract with the government in its two and a half years of operation.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Maybe it's not always the raider; it's that some employees had trusted in an implicit contract that they were offered by their employer.

也许也不都是这些公司蓄意收购者；,也许是一些雇员相信了他们雇主给他们的,暗示性承诺。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In nineteen twenty, the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth's contract to the famous New York Yankees baseball team.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

Machiavelli speaks of the prince, while Hobbes speaks of the sovereign, that is a kind of impersonal or in Hobbes' language, artificial power created out of a contract.

马基雅维利探讨君主，而霍布斯则探讨主权，这算是不受个人感情影响的，在霍布斯的说法里，君主的权力是由契约产生的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But in Washington the rating system is not governed by the labor contract with the teachers union.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

In the SIV contract, there was some language that implied that if the SIV ever went bankrupt, the bank would come back and rescue them.

结构投资公司的合同中包含着这样的条款,如果结构投资公司破产,银行会拯救他们

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

A forward contract is a contract made between two parties for execution in the future.

期货合约是指双方按约定,在未来某一日进行交割结算的合同

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

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

The song reached the Top 30 on the R&B chart, and led to a contract with Minit Records in her native New Orleans,Louisiana.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

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

Misabiko says the contract for uranium exploration should be made public so there can be an assessment of health conditions in areas near the mines.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

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

She both loved and respected Horne, who was the first African American to land a major Hollywood contract, at a time when blacks were cast only in subservient roles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

They could say I won't lower my prices if you don't lower your prices, and they could put this contract in with the pricy lawyer, who's taking a day off from the divorce court, and that would secure that they wouldn't lower prices on each other.

可以协定好你不降价我就不降,然后可以找个刚处理完离婚纠纷的,著名律师来作见证人,那样他们就放心对方不会打价格战了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选