contrivance 词态变化
复数: contrivances;
contrivance 中文词源
contrivance 人工产物，矫揉造作来自contrive, 发明，创造。词义贬义化。
contrivance 英文词源
- contrivance (n.)
- 1620s, from contrive + -ance.
contrivance 英文释义
- 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
contrivance 双语例句
- 1. Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.
- 这种机器是一般人发明不出来的.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.
- 这孩子正在忙着做什么手工.
来自辞典例句
- 3. It was another good contrivance.
- 这又是一种不错的新设计.
来自辞典例句
- 4. Some things are beyond human contrivance.
- 有些事情人们是无能为力的.
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- 5. His personal force and genius, combined with so much persuasion and contrivance, swept aside many obstacles.
- 他本人的精力与才华, 再加上他能循循善诱,办法也多, 就把许许多多的障碍一扫而光.
来自辞典例句
contrivance 实用场景例句
- The film is spoilt by unrealistic contrivances of plot.
- 这部电影被不实际的牵强情节给毁了。
牛津词典
- The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.
- 这故事讲得毫不矫揉造作。
牛津词典
- an ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it
- 使她未经过目就签署文件的妙计
牛津词典
- They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances...
- 他们衣着简朴，不使用那些现代的发明物。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- music with a tendency towards contrivance and lack of substance.
- 矫揉造作而缺乏实质性内容的音乐
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...some contrivance to raise prices.
- 提高价格的计谋
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.
- 这孩子正在忙着做什么手工.
辞典例句
- His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track.
- 他的证词只是为了让我们脱离正轨的把戏而已.
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- Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.
- 这种机器是一般人发明不出来的.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- A mechanical, electrical, or electronic contrivance with a specific purpose.
- 具有特定用途的机械 、 电气或电子设备.
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- Contrivance is obvious throughout the book.
- 全书从头至尾有明显的雕琢痕迹.
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- His personal force and genius, combined with so much persuasion and contrivance, swept aside many obstacles.
- 他本人的精力与才华, 再加上他能循循善诱,办法也多, 就把许许多多的障碍一扫而光.
辞典例句
- Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.
- 不过,她的神机妙算究竟造成了多大幸福, 她一直到第二天早上才知道.
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- In the night I took my first contrivance, and got up into a tree.
- 到了夜里,我又拿出我的老办法来, 爬到一棵大树上.
辞典例句
- He erected some contrivance for storing rain water.
- 他装设了一种贮存雨水的器具.
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- It was another good contrivance.
- 这又是一种不错的新设计.
辞典例句
- Some things are beyond human contrivance.
- 有些事情人们是无能为力的.
辞典例句
- Most poor nations, living very hard, create contrivance, this road, they walk.
- 多数贫穷国家, 生活十分艰苦, 创造发明, 这条道路, 他们走.
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- Curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth.
- 曲面镜不是用来产生真实影像,而是用来产生幻影(即假象)的流行器件.
辞典例句
- I have an ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it.
- 我有一条不经她过目就签署文件的妙计.
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- No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government.
- 来自那遥远统治的影响目前尚无法防止.
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