pacts

英 [pækts]

美 [pækts]

n.  条约; 协议; 公约
pact的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 协定；契约；盟约；条约
  Apactis a formal agreement between two or more people, organizations, or governments to do a particular thing or to help each other.
  1. Last month he signed a new non-aggression pact with Germany...
     上个月，他与德国签订了新的互不侵犯条约。
  2. The other two opposition parties cannot agree on an electoral pact between themselves.
     另外两个反对党之间无法就选举达成协议。

双语例句

• There are no pacts between lions and men.
  狮子和人之间没有任何协议可言。
• On October12th, Congress finally ratified long-stalled trade pacts with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
  （自由贸易商要啼笑皆非了。）10月12日，国会批准了久被搁浅的与哥伦比亚，巴拿马和韩国的贸易协议。
• It may seem contradictory that the Senate is threatening to raise barriers to trade with China even as it has just passed bilateral trade pacts with Colombia, South Korea and Panama.
  美国参议院一方面威胁提高对华贸易壁垒，另一方面则通过了与哥伦比亚、韩国和巴拿马的双边贸易协定，这种做法看似矛盾。
• The trade pacts will spur an exodus of US businesses to Mexico.
  这些贸易协定将会促使大批美国企业涌向墨西哥。
• Israel already bans the use of underweight and underage models, while other countries, including Italy and Spain, have weighed legislation similar to the one under consideration in France but for now continue to rely on voluntary pacts with the fashion industry.
  以色列已经禁止使用体重不达标的模特和未成年模特，而包括意大利和西班牙在内的其他国家，虽然拥有与法国正在考虑的法规相似的体重法案，但目前仍然依赖与时尚行业之间的自愿协定。
• But economic and financial trends, including Asia-only bond funds, currency swaps, investment pacts and institutions, may increasingly disadvantage US companies and work against US objectives.
  但目前的经济和金融趋势，包括仅局限于亚洲的债券基金、货币互换、投资协定和相关制度，可能会使美国企业日益陷于不利地位，并与美国的目标相左。
• But these pacts need to be balanced with worldwide market openings to strengthen global interests.
  但这些协议需要与世界范围的市场开放取得平衡，以加强全球利益。
• This is bad for those who believe that pacts and treaties should be respected.
  对于那些认为公约和条约应当得到尊重的人们来说，这是坏消息。
• The traditional focus of trade policy, formal pacts on tariffs and subsidies, is too narrow.
  贸易政策的传统焦点关税和补贴的正式协定如今已过于狭隘。
• The pacts were negotiated under George Bush's presidency, but had been held up amid a row about extending aid to American workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition.
  这些条约都已在乔治布什总统就职期间讨论过，但在对为在异国竞争中失业的美国工人提供援助的补充条例的谈判中被搁浅了。