contrivance

畅通词汇  
[kən'traɪvəns]     [kən'traɪvəns]    
  • n. 机械装置;发明的才能;想出的办法;人工痕迹
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contrivance的英文翻译是什么意思,词典释义与在线翻译:

英英释义

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

contrivance的用法和样例:

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。

经典引文

  • A clumsy contrivance to persuade me that I was unsuspected.

    出自: J. Buchan

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