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contriving

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

谋求,争取,谋划,设法

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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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbinvent, design
verbbring about, succeed with difficulty

Examples

  • If any of her work were turned into a screenplay, there would be no need to contrive sets or costumes.

  • Wonderful ingenuity has been shown in contriving a means to enable people to ascend the Wetterhorn Mountain in Switzerland.

  • Before church time walking with my father in the garden contriving.

  • Now they were this day contriving to get her presently to marry one Hayes that was there, and I did seem to persuade her to it.

  • My thoughts had been almost entirely occupied in contriving means to get into prison.

  • Rash young creatures, elder of them hardly above five-and-twenty yet: not good at contriving measures.