The basic compact underlying representative government, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the court, assumes that public officials will hear from their constituents and act on their concerns.

针对此次法庭审理，首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨写道：“代议制政府当包含这样的约，即公职人员会听取选民的诉求，并努力践行他们的关注点。”

An agreement signed by a child, to repay borrowed money, is void.

小孩为了偿还所借的钱而签的约无效的。

Protecting children from a previous marriage is a strong reason for prenuptial contracts.

保护前一次婚姻的孩子签署婚前约的一个重要原因。

The government's proposal of a 15% cap undoes the social contract " for institutions and the federal government to co-build the infrastructure for American science, " says Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals.

《科学》期刊总编辑霍尔登·索普(Holden Thorp)表示，政府提出的15%上限破坏了“机构和联邦政府共同建设美国科学基础设施”的社会约。

She imposed this contract on her kids — I will take care of you as long as you never leave me — when they were not in a position to consent to such a contract.

她把这份约强加给她的孩子们——要你们不离开我，我就照顾你们——而当时他们并没有能力同意这种约。

By breaking in in this way, though, a bumblebee nullifies the 100m-year-old pact between flowering plants and insects: that the plant feeds the insect in exchange for the insect pollinating the plant.

然而这种暴力获取的方式却撕毁了有花植物和昆虫间一亿万年的古老约：植物为昆虫提供食物，昆虫履行为其授粉的义务。

Of most importance is the new law that was signed by His Highness the Emir in October 2015, abolishing the kafala system and replacing it with a contractual agreement between employer and employee.

而其中最为重要的举措就2015年10月埃米尔殿下签署的新法废除了卡法拉制度，而取而代之的雇主与雇员之间的约性协议。

Asked if Microsoft would make a version of it for IBM PCs, Gates did not reveal the bargain he had made with Jobs but merely answered that " in time" that might happen.

当被问及微软否会为个人电脑开发 Excel 软件时，盖茨没有透露他和乔布斯的约，“以后”可能会。

It boasts one of China's top universities, Zhejiang University, and it's surrounded by a region known for its entrepreneurial spirit, as well as strong norms around things like contracts.

这里拥有中国顶尖大学之一——浙江大学，周边地区以创业精神和强烈的约规范闻名。

They didn't know that just six months later, James B. Duke would sign his indenture of trust that turned their alma mater, Trinity College, into our university.

他们不知道仅仅六个月后，詹姆斯·杜克将签署他的信托约，将他们的母校三一学院变成了杜克大学。

Across Africa, British colonialists romanticized the railway — whose deadly construction they oversaw through indentured Indian and African labor — with adventure narratives across " exotic" lands.

在非洲各地，英国殖民主义者通过在“异国”土地上的冒险故事，将这条铁路浪漫化了——他们利用印度和非洲的约劳工，监督铁路夺命般的建设。

A memorandum of the wager was at once drawn up and signed by the six parties, during which Phileas Fogg remained calm.

张打赌的约书立即写好，六位当事人在上面签了字。整个过程中福格很冷静。

Okay, so there are three types of pacts that we can use to help become more indestructible, price, effort, and identity.

好的，我们可以使用价格、努力和身份三种类型的约，来帮助自己变得更坚不可摧。

Use of the river's water is governed by an agreement between states signed in 1922 called the Colorado compact.

这条河的水的使用受1922年签署的一项名为科罗拉多约的州之间协议的管辖。

Because of this, the people who created the Compact incorrectly estimated how much water people would use.

正因为如此，制定《约》的人误判了人们将使用多少水。

But the compact had a fatal flaw.

但这一约有一个致命的缺陷。

And whenever they seem to threaten her contract, she uses guilt and obligation to force them to comply again.

每当他们似乎威胁到她的约时，她就会用内疚和义务迫使他们再次遵守。

But that was a hidden expectation, a covert contract, that Michael's mother had for him.

但这迈克尔的母亲对他的一个隐藏的期望，一份隐蔽的约。

Usually, because they had a hidden expectation, a covert contract, which you didn't live up to.

通常因为他们有一个隐藏的期望，一份秘密的约，而你没有做到。

Tough emotions are part of our contract with life.

坚韧的情绪我们与活约的一部分。