contrivance
英 [kənˈtraɪvəns]
美 [kənˈtraɪvəns]
n. 非自然之物; 人工产物; 矫揉造作; 精巧(或复杂)的装置; 专用工具; 计谋; 圈套; 计谋的(或圈套的)采用
复数:contrivances
BNC.21253 / COCA.24005
牛津词典
noun
- 非自然之物;人工产物;矫揉造作
something that sb has done or written that does not seem natural; the fact of seeming artificial- 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。 - The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.
这故事讲得毫不矫揉造作。
- The film is spoilt by unrealistic contrivances of plot.
- 精巧(或复杂)的装置;专用工具
a clever or complicated device or tool made for a particular purpose - 计谋;圈套;计谋的(或圈套的)采用
a clever plan or trick; the act of using a clever plan or trick- 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
- an ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR 不自然的东西;矫揉造作之物
If you describe something as acontrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.- 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。 - 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
- They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances...
- N-COUNT 诡计;计谋;阴谋
Acontrivanceis an unfair or dishonest scheme or trick to gain an advantage for yourself.- ...some contrivance to raise prices.
提高价格的计谋
- ...some contrivance to raise prices.
英英释义
noun
- the act of devising something
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- the faculty of contriving
- his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
双语例句
- In other words, for Hobbes, authority and relations of authority do not arise naturally among us, but are rather, again, like civil science itself, the product of contrivance or art.
换句话说,对于霍布斯,权力和权力关系,并不自然而然产生于我们之中,不如说是,像平民科学一样,是发明或艺术的产物。 - He's very hot on new sorts. a new contrivance for milking cows
他对新品种很有兴趣。一种挤牛奶的新机器 - 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。 - The scientist invented a new contrivance for milking cows.
科学家发明了一种新挤奶器。 - The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.
这孩子正在忙着做什么手工。 - 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。 - Of, relating to, or being a contrivance that brings about by complicated means what apparently could have been accomplished simply.
小题大做的,化简为繁的:通过复杂的方法做明显可以简单的完成的事的,或与之有关的。 - Martin had learned the contrivance from Joe at the Shelly Hot Springs.
那设计是马丁在雪莉温泉旅馆从乔那里学来的。 - This simple contrivance made it possible to weave a much wider piece of cloth and with greater rapidity.
这种简单的发明使人们可以织出横幅更宽的布匹,速度也更快。 - I think the meeting happened more by contrivance than chance.
我觉得这次会见是有意安排的而不是偶然的。