contrivance

noun

1. 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。
2. 精巧（或复杂）的装置；专用工具
   a clever or complicated device or tool made for a particular purpose
3. 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

1. N-VAR 不自然的东西;矫揉造作之物
   If you describe something as a contrivance, 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
2. N-COUNT 诡计;计谋;阴谋
   A contrivance is 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

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. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. Contrivance is obvious throughout the book. Only his hair showed the real trace of years.
   全书从头至尾有明显的雕琢痕迹。岁月只在他头发上留下了痕迹。
8. The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.
   这孩子正在忙着做什么手工。
9. Persuasion and contrivance swept aside many obstacles.
   劝说和谋划扫除了很多障碍。
10. 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。
11. His personal force and genius, combined with so much persuasion and contrivance, swept aside many obstacles.
    他本人的精力与才华，再加上他能循循善诱，办法也多，就把许许多多的障碍一扫而光。
12. 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？
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. It was another good contrivance.
    这又是一种不错的新设计。
17. He's very hot on new sorts. a new contrivance for milking cows
    他对新品种很有兴趣。一种挤牛奶的新机器
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. The villagers became suspicious about the weird contrivance.
    村民们对那个古怪的装置起了疑心。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. The scientist invented a new contrivance for milking cows.
    科学家发明了一种新挤奶器。
24. Occupy the independence knowledge the patent's contrivance with the creative power; Own the factory and school cooperation and have to continuously renew the employee's knowledge ability.
    拥有自主知识产权的发明创造和创新能力，拥有厂校合作不断更新员工的知识能力。
25. Only human art or science or art, human contrivance, can bring about peace.
    只有人类的艺术或科学，人类的发明，能够带来和平。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. 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。
30. Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.
    这种机器是一般人发明不出来的。

noun

1. the act of devising something

   Synonym:    devisal

2. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

   Synonym:    appliancecontraptionconveniencegadgetgizmogismowidget

3. any improvised arrangement for temporary use

   Synonym:    lash-up

4. the faculty of contriving
   1. his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem

5. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
   1. the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable

6. 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