contriver 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.
contriver 近义词
等同于 strategist
等同于 engineer
更多contriver例句
- 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.