contriving / kənˈtraɪv /

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contriving2 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb

con·trived, con·triv·ing.

  1. to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  2. to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme, or the like; manage: He contrived to gain their votes.
  3. to plot.
v. 无主动词 verb

con·trived, con·triv·ing.

  1. to form designs; plan.
  2. to plot.

contriving 近义词

v. 动词 verb

invent, design

v. 动词 verb

bring about, succeed with difficulty

更多contriving例句

  1. If any of her work were turned into a screenplay, there would be no need to contrive sets or costumes.
  2. Wonderful ingenuity has been shown in contriving a means to enable people to ascend the Wetterhorn Mountain in Switzerland.
  3. Before church time walking with my father in the garden contriving.
  4. 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.
  5. My thoughts had been almost entirely occupied in contriving means to get into prison.
  6. Rash young creatures, elder of them hardly above five-and-twenty yet: not good at contriving measures.