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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

            • 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。
            • 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。
            • May we not hope for such a position, or rather be assured of it, from the eternal revolutions of unguided matter, and may not this account for all the appearing wisdom and contrivance which is in the universe?
              从物质的这种无序的永恒运动之中,我们不可以希望甚至确信有这样一种状态吗?这不就可以解释宇宙所呈现出来的所有智慧和设计吗?
            • That is part of the problem: it is such an elaborate contrivance that there is too much at stake to abandon it.
              这就是问题的一部分:它是一项如此精巧的发明,以致于放弃它要冒太大的风险。
            • 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。
            • 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。
            • 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。
            • To diminish this loss of time and labour, the contrivance of fairs and markets was early had recourse to, where consumers and producers might periodically meet, without any intermediate agency;
              为了节省时间和劳动,人们很早就不得不求助于集市和市场,在集市和市场上,消费者和生产者可以定期晤面,而不需要任何中间媒介。
            • 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。
            • Occupy the independence knowledge the patent's contrivance with the creative power; Own the factory and school cooperation and have to continuously renew the employee's knowledge ability.
              拥有自主知识产权的发明创造和创新能力,拥有厂校合作不断更新员工的知识能力。