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contraptions

/kuhn-trap-shuhn/US // kənˈtræp ʃən //UK // (kənˈtræpʃən) //

摆设,摆件,摆放的装置,摆放的设备

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a mechanical contrivance; gadget; device.

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Examples

  • For now, the team has only tested the contraption one scent at a time.

  • It’s a contraption that includes electric thrusters that can autonomously stabilize a litter that’s dangling from a helicopter.

  • They aren’t revealing design details of the contraption yet, although a rendering shows a plane with six propellers and a V-shaped tail.

  • They can be fairly complicated contraptions, costing up to a few hundred dollars.

  • Its newer bike, one with a contraption that allows users to move the display screen so they can do workouts off the bike, met with enormous demand, adding to the pressure on Peloton.

  • Rosina, when she saw me cooling, had no such merciful contraption ready.

  • The wrestling worthy accessory is a bit of a misnomer—there is no cheekily exposed skin in this full-coverage contraption.

  • The gun range is nothing alarming—a plastic contraption with a toy pistol aiming at a series of targets a few feet away.

  • I parked the stroller at the base of the metal slide and wrestled Julia in her bulky snowsuit out of the belted contraption.

  • Called “Hövding,” the simple-looking contraption takes its cue from car airbags.

  • None of them had ever seen a piano before and June must play the "shiny contraption" and sing a song.

  • Jordde held something like a black whip in his hand, only the end went to a box-like contraption strapped to his back.

  • Four spindly legs led up to a globular body encased in a harness-like contraption.

  • I niver knowed that ye could shoot a bear with a shmall contraption like that black box.

  • It lay along a flat sheet of perforated steel––the homeliest contraption imaginable.