学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 3123 contract

今天我们要学的词是 contract. Contract作为动词，有收缩的意思。South Korea's central bank estimated that North Korea's economy contracted at the sharpest rate in two decades in 2017. 韩国中央银行估计，朝鲜2017年的经济出现了20年最大幅度的收缩。Government statistics¹ show Argentina's economy contracted 0.9 percent in April compared to the same month the year before. 政府的统计数字显示，阿根廷经济四月份同比收缩了0.9%。好的，我们今天学习的词是contract, contract, contract ...

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n.统计，统计数字，统计学

参考例句：

• We have statistics for the last year.我们有去年的统计资料。
• Statistics is taught in many colleges.许多大学都教授统计学。