contrive 的 2 个定义
con·trived, con·triv·ing.
- to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme, or the like; manage: He contrived to gain their votes.
- to plot.
con·trived, con·triv·ing.
- to form designs; plan.
- to plot.
contrive 近义词
invent, design
bring about, succeed with difficulty
更多contrive例句
- There was nothing contrived about the celebrations that greeted the news of the President’s intervention.
- Many conversations feel rehearsed, and many gatherings appear contrived to bring characters into conflict.
- This app got me thinking about how contrived all of our units of measurement are, but how they seem to make sense when we apply them to the correct things.
- In ancient Sparta, the lawgiver Lycurgus had contrived to make his constitution permanently unamendable.
- Yet he never met her, even when it would have been easy to contrive an encounter.
- There are thousands of ways to contrive a weapon that's at least as dangerous a two-inch hobby knife.
- He must contrive to keep his family alive as he strategizes.
- The Republicans contrive new ways every day to get less popular.
- That made me think, maybe they can contrive to do something similar on the mandate.
- Everybody understands that politicians contrive photo opportunities in which they can perform "care" and "concern."
- If any one of the parts should be lost or broken, it would require some ability in that country to contrive a substitute.
- You generally contrive to make yourself useful to your father in one way or another.
- I knew too well that if I took any legal measures, he would contrive to shift the whole burden of lunacy upon me.
- The cabin instantly obeyed them, and they having entered it began to consult how they should contrive to live there.
- Our great object was, as the reader will naturally suppose, to contrive some way of escape.