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
• 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
• a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
  Synonym:appliancecontraptionconveniencegadgetgizmogismowidget
• any improvised arrangement for temporary use
  Synonym:lash-up
• the faculty of contriving
  1. his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
• an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
  1. the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
• 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

• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Someone says that the contrivance person of the coffee of Ireland is all Berlin the bartender of the airport.
  有人说爱尔兰咖啡的发明人是都柏林机场的酒保。
• The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.
  这孩子正在忙着做什么手工。
• Most poor nations, living very hard, create contrivance, this road, they walk.
  多数贫穷国家，生活十分艰苦，创造发明，这条道路，他们走。
• 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。
• The scientist invented a new contrivance for milking cows.
  科学家发明了一种新挤奶器。
• I think the meeting happened more by contrivance than chance.
  我觉得这次会见是有意安排的而不是偶然的。
• 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。