contrivance

音标发音

• 英式音标 [kənˈtraɪ.vəns]
• 美式音标 [kənˈtraɪ.vəns]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.机械装置；发明的才能；想出的办法；人工痕迹

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• 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。
• But I no longer feel in myself the same unbounded profusion of ready contrivance.
  但是我自己却不再感到我急中生智的能力还是那般的无限丰富了。
• 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。

原声例句

• 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。
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• 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。
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权威例句

• Like their very names, Ms Wiggins's characters never quite dispel a whiff of contrivance.
  ECONOMIST: New American fiction
• It was a cog in the machinery of a three-country contrivance for cleansing illicit profits.
  FORBES: Magazine Article

词组短语

短语

• Contrivance E 公式化情节
• contrivance detail 创造品
• contrivance device 发明物
• Contrivance theory 发明原理法
• contrivance principle 设计原则

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• the act of contriving something

柯林斯英英字典

• If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
• A contrivance is an unfair or dishonest scheme or trick to gain an advantage for yourself.

专业释义

艺术学

• 公式化情节

生物学

• 计划
• 设计;发明;人为状态