We contracted the catering out to an outside firm.

【contract】我们把承办酒席外包给了外面的一家公司。

Remember the story -- how I talked about bailing out the banks, and they contracted out work?

。 还记得这个故事——我是如何谈论救助银行的， 他们将工作外包了吗？

Some of these people operated with the complicity of the American authorities, who had contracted out so many of the tasks once performed by soldiers.

他们中有些人便与美国当局串通，因为美国当局把很多原来由士兵执行的任务进行外包。