contrivance

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◎ 单词释义

n.机械装置;发明的才能;想出的办法;人工痕迹

日语:工夫 法语:stratagème 德语:Einrichtung 韩语:연구 俄语:estratagemaNoun:

    a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

    the faculty of contriving; inventive skill;

    "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"

    an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;

    "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"

    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

    the act of devising something

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contrivance的用法及例句:

A clumsy contrivance to persuade me that I was unsuspected.