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contriver

/kuhn-trahyv/US // kənˈtraɪv //UK // (kənˈtraɪv) //

起重机,竞争者,驱动者,起重器

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·trived, con·triv·ing.

    • : to form designs; plan.
    • : to plot.

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Examples

  • This contriver of miracles, of a countenance at once sanctimonious, artful and sly, preceded other prelates carrying banners.

  • Black Will had been mutilated, and Walker nearly drowned, but "the close contriver of all harms" had kept out of harm's way.

  • Who was John McDonogh, the maker of the foregoing will, and contriver of such a grand scheme of charity?

  • If I wasn't such a good contriver, we should look more like paupers than respectable people.

  • Amphares, the chief of these, and the contriver of the plot, was one of the new ephori created after the deposition of Agesilaus.