contrivance

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美[k?n?tra?v?ns]

基本釋義

n.
發(fā)明; 發(fā)明才能; 想出的辦法; 發(fā)明物

詞性變化

實用例句

The film is spoilt by unrealistic contrivances of plot.

這部電影被不實際的牽強情節(jié)給毀了。

牛津詞典

The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.

這故事講得毫不矯揉造作。

牛津詞典

an ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it

使她未經(jīng)過目就簽署文件的妙計

牛津詞典

They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances...

他們衣著簡樸,不使用那些現(xiàn)代的發(fā)明物。

music with a tendency towards contrivance and lack of substance.

矯揉造作而缺乏實質性內容的音樂

...some contrivance to raise prices.

提高價格的計謀

The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.

這孩子正在忙著做什么手工.

辭典例句

His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track.

他的證詞只是為了讓我們脫離正軌的把戲而已.

期刊摘選

Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.

這種機器是一般人發(fā)明不出來的.

《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

A mechanical, electrical, or electronic contrivance with a specific purpose.

具有特定用途的機械 、 電氣或電子設備.

期刊摘選

Contrivance is obvious throughout the book.

全書從頭至尾有明顯的雕琢痕跡.

期刊摘選

His personal force and genius, combined with so much persuasion and contrivance, swept aside many obstacles.

他本人的精力與才華, 再加上他能循循善誘,辦法也多, 就把許許多多的障礙一掃而光.

辭典例句

Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.

不過,她的神機妙算究竟造成了多大幸福, 她一直到第二天早上才知道.

期刊摘選

In the night I took my first contrivance, and got up into a tree.

到了夜里,我又拿出我的老辦法來, 爬到一棵大樹上.

辭典例句

He erected some contrivance for storing rain water.

他裝設了一種貯存雨水的器具.

期刊摘選

It was another good contrivance.

這又是一種不錯的新設計.

辭典例句

Some things are beyond human contrivance.

有些事情人們是無能為力的.

辭典例句

Most poor nations, living very hard, create contrivance, this road, they walk.

多數(shù)貧窮國家, 生活十分艱苦, 創(chuàng)造發(fā)明, 這條道路, 他們走.

期刊摘選

Curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth.

曲面鏡不是用來產(chǎn)生真實影像,而是用來產(chǎn)生幻影(即假象)的流行器件.

辭典例句

I have an ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it.

我有一條不經(jīng)她過目就簽署文件的妙計.

期刊摘選

No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government.

來自那遙遠統(tǒng)治的影響目前尚無法防止.

期刊摘選

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. a device that is very useful for a particular job

  • 2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill;

    "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"

  • 3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;

    "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"

  • 4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.;

    "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"

  • 5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use

  • 6. the act of devising something

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