In Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology, a system interface is most often viewed as a contract.

在面向对象的分析和设计方法中，系统接口通常被视为契约。

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Then we used the business process as a contract that helped identify the required services and the potential relationships between them.

接着，我们将业务过程作为一个帮助我们识别必需的服务以及它们之间潜在联系的契约来使用。

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Data persistence can be defined as a contract, negotiated between a program and a storage device, that specifies how data are to be stored and retrieved.

可以将数据持久性定义为程序和存储设备之间达成的契约，该契约指定如何存储和检索数据。

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It's illegal, so they can't sign that as a contract, but they they can just agree to do it.

因为是违法的,合同也就无效了,不过他们可以私下达成默契

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Milton makes a covenant with the reader. It's as if he's signing a contract because he's asking for credit here.

他与读者签了契约，就好像,因为他要借款所以签了份合同一样。

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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。

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