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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 

化学

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
      1. 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。
      2. The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.
        这故事讲得毫不矫揉造作。
    • 精巧(或复杂)的装置;专用工具
      a clever or complicated device or tool made for a particular purpose
      1. 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
        1. 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

      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.
        1. 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。
        2. 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
      • N-COUNT 诡计;计谋;阴谋
        Acontrivanceis an unfair or dishonest scheme or trick to gain an advantage for yourself.
        1. ...some contrivance to raise prices.
          提高价格的计谋

      英英释义

      noun

      • the act of devising something
          Synonym:devisal
        1. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
            Synonym:appliancecontraptionconveniencegadgetgizmogismowidget
          1. any improvised arrangement for temporary use
              Synonym:lash-up
            1. the faculty of contriving
              1. his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
            2. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
              1. the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
            3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
              1. his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
              Synonym:stratagemdodge

            双语例句

            • 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。
            • The scientist invented a new contrivance for milking cows.
              科学家发明了一种新挤奶器。
            • Contrivance is obvious throughout the book. Only his hair showed the real trace of years.
              全书从头至尾有明显的雕琢痕迹。岁月只在他头发上留下了痕迹。
            • Who made these dirty marks on my new book? Contrivance is obvious throughout the book.
              谁把我的新书弄上了这些污迹?全书从头至尾有明显的雕琢痕迹。
            • 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,而是用来产生幻影的流行器件。
            • 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。
            • Only human art or science or art, human contrivance, can bring about peace.
              只有人类的艺术或科学,人类的发明,能够带来和平。
            • The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron.
              设计这样一个用铁和木制成的家伙显然极尽羞辱之能事。
            • The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.
              这孩子正在忙着做什么手工。
            • Yet, the third definition of the word'engineering'is'skillful or artful contrivance; maneuvering. '
              第三种关于‘工程学’的定义是‘熟练的或者巧妙的发明创造;机动。