contriving 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.
contriving 近义词
invent, design
bring about, succeed with difficulty
更多contriving例句
- 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.