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contrivances

/kuhn-trahy-vuhns/US // kənˈtraɪ vəns //UK // (kənˈtraɪvəns) //

手段,技巧,巧计,举措

Related Words

gimmick噱头,噱頭,技巧,绰号ruse诡计,伎俩,诡计多端,骗局artifice构造,构造物,构造性,构造的contraption摆设,玩意儿,装置,摆件dodge躲避,躲闪,躲躲闪闪,躲开stratagem伎俩,谋略,计策,计谋twist扭转,扭曲,缠绕,扭曲了angle角度,观点,角度问题,视角plot情节,计划,阴谋,剧情machination机械化,机械加工,机械制造,机械制作expedient权宜之计,合宜的,适宜的,合理的slant斜面,斜线,倾斜的,倾斜project项目,工程,计划,项目简介trick诀窍,窍门,骗局,诡计switch开关,转换,转换器,开关机invention发明,发明创造,发明的,发明的东西design设计,设计方案,设计图,设计图象measure措施,衡量,计量,衡量标准formation形成,组建,组成,形成的inventiveness创造性,创造力,发明力,发明性

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something contrived; a device, especially a mechanical one.
    • : the act or manner of contriving; the faculty or power of contriving.
    • : a plan or scheme; expedient.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounplan, fabrication
Synonyms
artifice构造,构造物,构造性,构造的gimmick噱头,噱頭,技巧,绰号ruse诡计,伎俩,诡计多端,骗局angle角度,观点,角度问题,视角brainchild智囊团,聪明的孩子,智囊,智囊团成员coinage硬币,钱币,币种,币值design设计,设计方案,设计图,设计图象dodge躲避,躲闪,躲躲闪闪,躲开expedient权宜之计,合宜的,适宜的,合理的formation形成,组建,组成,形成的intrigue阴谋,阴谋诡计,阴谋论,诡计invention发明,发明创造,发明的,发明的东西inventiveness创造性,创造力,发明力,发明性machination机械化,机械加工,机械制造,机械制作measure措施,衡量,计量,衡量标准plot情节,计划,阴谋,剧情project项目,工程,计划,项目简介scheme计划,方案,计谋,计策slant斜面,斜线,倾斜的,倾斜stratagem伎俩,谋略,计策,计谋switch开关,转换,转换器,开关机trick诀窍,窍门,骗局,诡计twist扭转,扭曲,缠绕,扭曲了
noungadget
Synonyms
contraption摆设,玩意儿,装置,摆件apparatus器械,器官,仪器,器具appliance用具,用器,用品,用电器brainchild智囊团,聪明的孩子,智囊,智囊团成员coinage硬币,钱币,币种,币值convenience方便,便利,便利性,方便性creation创作,创造,创建,创设device设备,装置discovery发现,探索,发现问题,发觉engine发动机,引擎,引擎类,引擎引擎equipment设备gear齿轮,装备,档位gimcrackGimcrackharness驾驭,驾驭能力,线束,马具implement实施,执行,落实,贯彻执行instrument仪表,文书,器械,文具invention发明,发明创造,发明的,发明的东西machine机器,机器设备,机器的,机器的作用material材料,材质,资料,物质mechanism机制,机构,机关,机理tackle应对,处理,解决,解决问题thingamabobThingamabbthingamajig淘宝网,淘宝,淘宝网店,淘宝店tool工具,工具类utensil用具,器皿,器物,工具whatsis什么论文,什么论,什么论点widget小工具,小器具,小部件,小组件

Examples

  • While I’m sure it makes perfect sense to the algorithm, the result is an exceedingly strange, questionably authentic mix of moods, genre conventions and contrivances.

  • Despite reality TV being a buzzing hive of manipulations and contrivances, the captain says Sailing Yacht remains, at least in its filming methods, pure.

  • Here, however, the novel ends with unearned sentimentality and cheap contrivance.

  • The endless succession of quotation marks is its own contrivance, a scrim between Shields and the world.

  • Baseball: "an incredibly complex contrivance that seems to have been created by a chauvinistic mathematician."

  • He dwelt upon this contrivance, until it seemed too complicated for success.

  • The latter seems to have suggested the contrivance and the former to have done the practical work.

  • "It was by Marius's contrivance that he was placed sentry over the girl," he heard her tell Fortunio, and he thought she sneered.

  • Such a contrivance helps to improve the leeway of so shallow a boat, although not proportionately to the area immersed.

  • Toward the latter part of his sickness, a rude contrivance was adopted to change his position in bed.

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