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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？