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

• Regional pacts and arrangements, especially in the political and security realms, are thin.
  区域性条约和约定，在政治和安全领域尤为缺少。
• Electoral pacts would not work, but an entente cordiale might.
  选举协定不会起作用，但是政府间的谅解也许可以。
• 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。
• Recent polls show declining support for pacts such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.
  近来的民意调查显示，北美自由贸易协议之类的条约所获得的支持率正在下降。
• 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。
• Minority shareholders can expect to be frozen out unless they make pacts with other shareholders.
  又少数股东倘若未与其他股东签订种种协议，资金可能会被冻结。
• 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。
• For instance, it has joined the League of nations, signed treaties of mutual assistance with France and Czechoslovakia and tried hard to conclude security pacts with Britain and all other countries that might be willing to have peace.
  例如，它加入了国际联盟，同法国同捷克都订立了互助协定，竭力想同英国及一切愿意和平的国家订立保障安全的条约。
• Rakuten has used its compatriot status to make pacts with Japanese publishers reluctant to deal with outsiders it seems.
  日本国内出版商并不希望与外来者打交道，在与他们的协商过程中，乐天充分利用了作为日本民族企业这一身份，成功狙击了亚马逊的日本业务。
• The pacts largely comprised bilateral agreements with minor trading partners, of political but not economic importance.
  这些协定大多是与不重要的贸易伙伴签署的双边协定，虽在政治上意义重大，但在经济上却并非如此。