contrivances

英 [kənˈtraɪvənsɪz]

美 [kənˈtraɪvənsɪz]

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
contrivance的复数

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

双语例句

• Talking about the Compiling Contrivances of the Mathematical Applied Questions
  数学应用问题的编制策略例谈
• Laws, he suggests, are but contrivances which the weak impose in order to keep the naturally superior from holding them in subjection. Organization of the Oppressed of the World
  柏拉图认为，法律是弱者为防止受到天生的强者的压迫而制定出来的。全世界被压迫者组织
• Old Tom is full of contrivances.
  老汤姆满脑子都是技巧。
• I set about improvising some makeshift contrivances.
  我开始凑合着做几件临时用用的装置。
• Moreover, continued the Sophists, human laws were clearly not part of nature, but were instead man-made contrivances and conventions.
  另外，智者派还认为，人类的法则明显不属于自然法则，而是人为的规定或习俗。
• It was always odious to her to have any small fears or contrivances about her actions.
  她的行动哪怕有一丝一毫的顾虑和虚伪，都会引起她的反感。
• The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise;
  最有希望的发明当它们问世时就带着潜在的邪恶。
• Her accomplice suffered for his share in the escape, notwithstanding his timid contrivances.
  她的同谋者，尽管想出了他那怯懦的策略，为了这件逃脱的事还是吃了苦头。
• 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。
• They are not mere stylistic contrivances, but evolutionary adaptations to the transcendent needs of human beings – they form the genius loci.
  那不是纯粹风格上的发明物，而是适应众多人类需求的进化物&他们形成了场所精神。