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单词 contrive
释义
contrivecon‧trive /kənˈtraɪv/ verb [transitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcontrive
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French controver, from Late Latin contropare
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
contrive
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theycontrive
he, she, itcontrives
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theycontrived
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave contrived
he, she, ithas contrived
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad contrived
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill contrive
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have contrived
Continuous Form
PresentIam contriving
he, she, itis contriving
you, we, theyare contriving
PastI, he, she, itwas contriving
you, we, theywere contriving
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been contriving
he, she, ithas been contriving
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been contriving
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be contriving
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been contriving
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • He contrived a meeting between his mother and her ex- husband.
  • In the play Amos contrives a scheme to make Paul pay back the money he owes him.
  • Richter contrived a scale to measure the force of an earthquake.
  • The lawsuit says oil companies contrived a gasoline shortage in the early 1970s.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Fortunately this morning Rose had contrived to rid himself of Naseby's services.
  • In as tactful a way as she could contrive she asked Shildon to hurry up with what he wanted to say.
  • They can not be urgent if they must be contrived for him.
  • They spoke of trading and contriving.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto carefully or secretly arrange something
written to carefully and often secretly arrange for something to happen, especially so that people do not realize that it was a planned event: · Treasury officials are trying to orchestrate a sharp decline in the dollar.· The so-called 'revolution' was in fact orchestrated by the CIA.
to carefully and secretly arrange for something, especially a political event, to happen in exactly the way that you want, but without giving the appearance that it was planned - use this to show disapproval: · Most of the 'spontaneous demonstrations' supporting the President are stage-managed.
to arrange for something to happen without anyone knowing that you have planned it: · The socialist party secretly engineered the defeat of the government.· Before they could engineer an escape, they had to be sure that none of the guards were suspicious.
to arrange an event or situation in a clever way, especially secretly and by tricking or deceiving people: · He contrived a meeting between his mother and her ex- husband.· In the play Amos contrives a scheme to make Paul pay back the money he owes him.
1formal to succeed in doing something in spite of difficultiescontrive to do something Schindler contrived to save more than 1,000 Polish Jews from the Nazis.2to arrange an event or situation in a clever way, especially secretly or by deceiving people:  The lawsuit says oil companies contrived the oil shortage in the 1970s.3to make or invent something in a skilful way, especially because you need it suddenly:  In 1862, a technique was contrived to take a series of photographs showing stages of movement.
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