IATA had earlier forecast global passenger traffic to contract by two percent this year, with a recovery in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

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

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So, just random contract jobs until I discovered this company called Odeo, which was run by Evan Williams.

所以，我一直在打零工,直到我找到了一家叫奥德奥的公司，它是埃文·威廉姆斯经营的。

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"But,it is this television that does not want to sign a contract with the Union and does not want to pay royalties.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

They said, would you sign a contract that if you had this loss the contract would pay you a certain amount of money?

他们是这样说的，你会签署一个合约,上面约定了，当你发生损失,你会得到合约中约定的赔偿金？

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The Thai economy is forecast to contract by as much as four percent this year, leaving as many as two million unemployed.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

This is a contract with his father in this passage.

这段话是他与父亲的合同。

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The European Union predicts the German economy, Europe's largest, is likely to contract by 5.4 percent this year, a larger decline than the EU average.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

The sovereign is described by Hobbes as an artificial person by which he means the sovereign is the creation of the contract or the covenant that brought this office into being.

霍布斯把君主描述为一个,现今意义上的法人,也就是说君主的权力,是由某种意义上的合同,或说是契约而形成的。

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Well, one thing that goes wrong is that suppose Coke and Pepsi were able to either to write a contract or whatever to sustain joint monopoly output at this high price, this price which is actually producing positive profits in the industry it is going to turn out, therefore the price is going to be above costs.

我来说吧,问题出在这里了,假设可口可乐和百事达成了协议,不管签的是协议还是合同,只要能通过协约维持垄断产出,通过制定高价来达到正的利润就行,这样价格是高于成本的

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Senator Roland Burris also blasted the program, and the U.S.government's contract with Boeing for the work, during this exchange with Customs and Border Protection Agency commissioner Alan Bersin.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

In order to devise an insurance contact that does this job, we have to have a contract between an insurance company and the insured.

要想设计一个保险合约,要想做这项工作，我们得在保险公司和,被保险人之间建立一个合约。

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The Thai Futures Exchange introduced its first gold futures contract early this year, adding a new dimension for investors looking to reduce the risks of volatile commodity prices.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Earlier this month CIA director Panetta banned the use of contract - that is,non-employee - interrogators and ordered the agency's network of secret prisons to be shut down.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17