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 Present I, you, we, they contrive he, she, it contrives Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they contrived Present perfect I, you, we, they have contrived he, she, it has contrived Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had contrived Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will contrive Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have contrived Continuous Form Present I am contriving he, she, it is contriving you, we, they are contriving Past I, he, she, it was contriving you, we, they were contriving Present perfect I, you, we, they have been contriving he, she, it has been contriving Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been contriving Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be contriving Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will 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► orchestrate 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. ► stage-manage 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. ► engineer 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. ► contrive 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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