contrivance

英 [kən'traɪvəns] 美 [kən'traɪvəns]

• n. 机械装置；发明的才能；想出的办法；人工痕迹

英英释义

Noun:

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

2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill;

   "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
   

3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;

   "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
   

4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.;

   "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
   

5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use

6. the act of devising something

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He erected some contrivance for storing rain-water.
   他装设了一种贮存雨水的器具.
2. Some things are beyond human contrivance.
   有些东西非人力所能创造。
3. 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。
4. 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。

经典引文

• A clumsy contrivance to persuade me that I was unsuspected.

  出自： J. Buchan

近反义词

【近义词】

• gadget 小机件
• contraption 奇妙的装置
• thingamajig 某某
• device 装置
• apparatus 器官
• machine 机器
• conspiracy 阴谋
• plot 情节
• coinage 硬币
• setup 装备
• thing 东西
• patent 专利
• plan 计划
• machination 阴谋
• means 方法
• gizmo 小玩意儿
• dodge 避开
• lash-up 应急的东西或计划...
• stratagem 战略
• Gismo 机械装置
• widget (某公司的)典型小产品...
• convenience 便利
• appliance 器具
• devisal 发明