他说“我们签订合约而且那是无法改变的事实”。

"We are bound into contracts and that's just a fact of life, " he said.

youdao

甲：在我们签订合约之前，我可不可以确定几项事情呢？

A: Before we sign this contract, may I confirm a couple of things?

youdao

签订合约阶段是用来针对工作应如何开展进行谈判的最佳阶段。

The Contract phase is the highest leverage time to negotiate how the work will unfold

youdao

So shortly after 9/11 the Government made a contract to a company called Acambis to make four hundred million doses of smallpox for $343 million dollars.

11后不久 政府与一个叫做,阿坎比斯的公司签订了合约,目的是用3.43亿美元,制造四亿支天花疫苗

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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