contrivance

英[kən'traɪvəns] 美[kən'traɪvəns]
  • n. 机械装置；发明的才能；想出的办法；人工痕迹

详细释义

Noun:
  1. a device or control 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

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.

来自辞典例句

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

    用作名词 (n.)
    1. He erected some contrivance for storing rain-water.
      他装设了一种贮存雨水的器具.
    2. Some things are beyond human contrivance.
      有些东西非人力所能创造。
    3. 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。
    4. 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。

相关词汇

【邻近词汇】

contrive contrite Contrivance theory
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