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English translation for "contrivance"

 
n.
1.发明,设计(方案),计划。
2.发明[设计]的才能;机巧,巧思。
3.奇巧的制作物,新发明,装置,设备。
4.计策,奸计,诡计。
5.人为的修饰,巧饰。
短语和例子
Example Sentences:
1.It was another good contrivance .
这又是一种不错的新设计。
2.Old tom is full of contrivances .
老汤姆满脑子都是技巧。
3.The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance .
这孩子正在忙着做什么手工。
4.Eustacia was nettled by her own contrivances .
游苔莎对于自己这种改装的办法,觉得烦恼起来。
5.In our dearth of ack-ack guns all sorts of contrivances were used .
在缺少高射炮的时候,我们利用了各种各样的巧妙方法。
6.It was always odious to her to have any small fears or contrivances about her actions .
她的行动哪怕有一丝一毫的顾虑和虚伪,都会引起她的反感。
7.Curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth .
曲面镜不是用来产生真实影像,而是用来产生幻影(即假象)的流行器件。
8.Her accomplice suffered for his share in the escape, not-withstanding his timid contrivances .
她的同谋者,尽管想出了他那怯懦的策略,为了这件逃脱的事还是吃了苦头。
9.He erected some contrivance for storing rainwater
他装设了一种贮存雨水的器具。
10.Of all his sister s falsehood and contrivance
是他自己的姐妹自欺欺人的下场!
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