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

• 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。
• An ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it.
  为使她不经过目就签署文件的妙计。
• Curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth.
  曲面镜不是用来产生真实影像，而是用来产生幻影的流行器件。
• 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。
• 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。
• Persuasion and contrivance swept aside many obstacles.
  劝说和谋划扫除了很多障碍。
• The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.
  这孩子正在忙着做什么手工。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。