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

• In recent months North Korea has torn up its non-aggression pacts with the South and refused to recognise a maritime border.
  最近几个月，朝鲜撕毁了与韩国的互不侵犯条约，并拒绝承认海界线。
• Negotiating new pacts has proved difficult.
  事实证明，谈判达成新的贸易协定可谓困难重重。
• 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。
• Obama stressed he is not anti-trade, but wants to make sure that future trade pacts include labor, safety and environmental standards to protect American workers and consumers.
  奥巴马强调他不反对贸易，但是他要确保未来的贸易条约必须包括劳工、安全和环保等方面的标准，来保护美国工人和消费者。
• 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。
• Hence trade pacts should also authorise countervailing currency intervention, through which it could offset the manipulators 'purchases of its currency by buying equal amounts of theirs.
  因此，贸易协议还应批准补偿性汇率干预，通过这种干预，受害国可以通过买入汇率操纵国同样数额的货币，抵消汇率操纵国买入受害国货币的影响。
• There are no pacts between lions and men.
  狮子和人之间没有任何协议可言。
• 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。
• International Conference against military pacts and bases, for international security and cooperation;
  反对军事盟约和基地促进国际安全与合作国际会议；
• At a minimum, they should lose the wider market access obtained via free-trade pacts.
  它们至少应失去通过自由贸易协议获得的更广泛市场准入。