Amazon had alleged that President Trump intervened to deny it the contract in 2019.

亚马逊声称，特朗普总统曾在2019年干预并否认该合同。

Those forced to exercise their smiling muscles reacted more enthusiastically to funny cartoons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown, suggesting that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around.

那些被迫锻炼微笑肌肉的人比那些嘴巴收缩成皱纹的人对有趣的动画片反应更热烈，这表明表情可能影响情绪，而不是相反。

He contracted the virus in Sierra Leone.

他在塞拉昂感染了病毒。

And then I got off a big network TV contract in Australia and I was like oh, but if I don't go now it's a bit late, if you're already 30 or whatever to come to Hollywood as a woman.

然后在亚签下了一份型网络电视合同，就想，如果现在不去，那就有点晚了，如果你已经 30 岁以女性身份来到好莱坞的话。

I think when they start going back to these properties and certainly businesses that haven't got pest control contracts in -- in -- involved, they might find themselves going to have a big surprise.

认为，当人们开始回到这些房产和没有签订鼠害防治合同的企业时，他们可能会发现一个很的惊喜。

The malaise is spreading to core countries including Finland and the Netherlands, which both contracted in the first quarter.

经济萎靡不振正逐渐扩心国家，包括芬兰和荷兰，这两个国家都在第一季度经历了经济衰退。

Factory output in America surprisingly contracted in August for the first time in three years.

令人惊讶的是，美国8月份的工厂产量出现了三年来的首次萎缩。

Making things worse, the atmosphere subtly expands and contracts in response to solar activity.

更糟糕的是，气层会随着太阳活动进行微妙的膨胀和收缩。

He contracted the disease last year in Monrovia.

去年，他在蒙罗维亚感染了埃博拉。

He contracted tubercular meningitis while in prison.

在监狱期间，他身患结性脑膜炎。

The writers and technicians approved their contract in September after a four-month strike.

经过四个月的罢工，编剧和技术人员于9月份批准了他们的合同。

Activity in the service industry contracted in August, according to the PMI survey.

采购经理指数调查显示，8月份服务业活动收缩。

All contracts in Kumran are obtained by bribery.

库姆兰所有的合同都是靠贿赂获得的。

We ve got a... A lumberyard we're contracting up in Trenton.

们在 特伦敦找了一家木材厂。

New figures show the economy contracted by 2.4 percent in the last quarter of 2018 following a fall in the previous quarter.

新的数据显示2018年第四季度经济下滑2.4%，上一个季度就开始出现了下滑。

In quadrupeds, like the tiger, their tricep and shoulder muscles contract in a long gait in a special way that absorbs the mechanical energy and disperses it as harmless heat.

偶足类动物，例如老虎，它们的三头肌和肩部肌肉长时间以一种特殊的方式收缩，以此来吸收机械能并将其分为无害的热量。

And it's often contracted in spoken English so instead of saying 'can not', you'll hear 'can't' and that's a very different vowel sound to what we were practising earlier, right?

在英语口语中经常会缩写，们说的并不是“cannot”，而是“can't”，这和们之前练习的元音非常不同，对吧？

The British economy contracted in the third quarter, by 0.2% over the previous three months, on cue for the start of a long recession that the Bank of England has forecast.

英国经济在第三季度收缩，比前三个月下降了0.2%，这是英格兰银行预测的长期衰退的开始。

To date, we've seen three cases of Ebola diagnosed here-the man who contracted the disease in Liberia, came here and sadly died; the two courageous nurses who were infected while they were treating him.

到今天为止，已经确诊的埃博拉病毒感染者只有3例，其中一位是在比里亚感染的，很遗憾，他回国之后去世了；另外有两位勇敢的护士是在护理他的时候感染的。

Futures are a type of contract in which a buyer and a seller agree on a price for a particular item to be delivered on a date in the future.

期货是指买卖双方就特定商品的价格达成一致并在将来某一时间交付的一种合约。