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contrivance

英[kən'traɪv(ə)ns] 美[kən'traɪvəns]
  • n. 发明;发明物;想出的办法;计谋

英英释意


1. a device that is very useful for a particular job
2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill;
"his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
"his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.;
"the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use
6. the act of devising something