"his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
"his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
"the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
这部电影被不实际的牵强情节给毁了。
The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.这故事讲得毫不矫揉造作。
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
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。
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
...some contrivance to raise prices.提高价格的计谋
The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.这孩子正在忙着做什么手工.
His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track.他的证词只是为了让我们脱离正轨的把戏而已.
Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.这种机器是一般人发明不出来的.
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.
contrivance is obvious throughout the book.全书从头至尾有明显的雕琢痕迹.
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.
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.
He erected some contrivance for storing rain water.他装设了一种贮存雨水的器具.
It was another good contrivance.这又是一种不错的新设计.
Some things are beyond human contrivance.有些事情人们是无能为力的.
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.
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(即假象)的流行器件.
I have an ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it.我有一条不经她过目就签署文件的妙计.
No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government.来自那遥远统治的影响目前尚无法防止.
A clumsy contrivance to persuade me that I was unsuspected.
出自：J. Buchan
