| 单词 | contrivance |
| 释义 | con·triv·ance 1. < a ready and lively contrivance of certain ideal solutions — J.P.Anton > : inventive ability : skill at devising : ingenuity < the writer's expert contrivance often becomes mere trickery > 2. < at times in the story contrivance is obvious and so are coming events — L.T.Bulman > < the lack of emotional impact which is the effect of a too careful contrivance — Times Literary Supplement > 3. a. < telling a story honestly without dramatic contrivances > < government is a contrivance of human wisdom — Edmund Burke > b. < how prosaic the modern … contrivances compared to the old boilers [fire-engines] — Elmer Rice > |
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