| 单词 | contraption | 
| 释义 | contraption  (kəntræpʃən  )       Word forms:  contraptions   countable noun  You can refer to a device or machine as a contraption, especially when it looks strange or you do not know what it is used for.   Wearers use the strange contraption for facial exercises.   Synonyms:  device, instrument, mechanism, apparatus     Collocations:  mechanical contraption He set out to recreate an elaborate mechanical contraption that could harness up to 24 spiders at a time to extract the filaments they emit to make webs.  Times, Sunday Times  The original figure (now restored) was of 40 ft height weighing about 6 tons (considered then as the largest such mechanical contraption sign in the world).  Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0   They also use the carpentry tools and local resources to build mechanical contraptions.  Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0   By operating mechanical contraptions and deciphering codes and symbols discovered in the surroundings, the vaguely explained goal can eventually be reached.  Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0    | 
	
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