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 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。
• 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。
• It was another good contrivance.
  这又是一种不错的新设计。
• 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。
• Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.
  不过，她的神机妙算究竟造成了多大幸福，她一直到第二天早上才知道。
• 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。
• Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.
  这种机器是一般人发明不出来的。
• 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？
• 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。