英 [kənˈtraɪvəns] 美 [kənˈtraɪvəns]
n. 发明；发明物；想出的办法；计谋
复数contrivances
contrivance /kənˈtraɪvəns/
有变体名词 If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial. 过于人为修饰的物件
They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances.
他们穿着简单，避免了现代装束。
...music with a tendency towards contrivance and lack of substance.
...趋于人为雕琢但缺乏实质内容的音乐。
可数名词 A contrivance is an unfair or dishonest scheme or trick to gain an advantage for yourself. 诡计
They always come up with some contrivance to raise prices.
他们总是想出一些诡计来提价。
a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
同义词： appliance / contraption / convenience / gadget / gizmo / gismo / widget
the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
any improvised arrangement for temporary use
同义词： lash-up
the act of devising something
同义词： devisal
公式化情节
计划
设计;发明;人为状态
... 公式化的 formulaic 公式化情节 contrivance 被公式化的 formuliert ...
... contribution n.贡献 contrivance n.装置 controversial a.导火索争论的 ...
... contradict反驳，否认 contradiction矛盾，不一致；否认 contrivance 发明,发明的才能,想出的办法, conversion转变，转化；改变 ...
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The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.
这故事讲得毫不矫揉造作。
They always come up with some contrivance to raise prices.
他们总是想出一些诡计来提价。
Martin had learned the contrivance from Joe at the Shelly Hot Springs.
那设计是马丁在雪莉温泉旅馆从乔那里学来的。
Only human art or science or art, human contrivance, can bring about peace.
只有人类的艺术或科学，人类的发明，能够带来和平。
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In other words, for Hobbes, authority and relations of authority do not arise naturally among us, but are rather, again, like civil science itself, the product of contrivance or art.
换句话说，对于霍布斯，权力和权力关系,并不自然而然产生于我们之中，不如说是，像平民科学一样，是发明或艺术的产物。
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Like their very names, Ms Wiggins's characters never quite dispel a whiff of contrivance.
It was a cog in the machinery of a three-country contrivance for cleansing illicit profits.
Obama's post-partisan pragmatism, he has confirmed with his inaugural address, was only a useful political contrivance.