| 单词 | contrive |
| 释义 | con·trive I. transitive verb 1. a. < contrive means of meeting > b. < from stone, wood, shell, and bone the Indians contrived … household utensils — American Guide Series: Tennessee > 2. now dialect 3. obsolete < the whole shire contrived into 33 hundreds — John Speed > 4. < he contrived to win the cooperation … of Voltaire, Buffon — Times Literary Supplement > intransitive verb < if we were perfectly satisfied with the present we should cease to contrive, to labor, and to save for the future — T.B.Macaulay > Synonyms: < a couple of neighboring farmers in a village will contrive and practice as many tricks to overreach each other at the next market — Earl of Chesterfield > < the little dress that Maman had so cleverly contrived out of two Empire scarves — Anne D. Sedgwick > < you have come here to cast me off and artfully contrive that it should appear to be my doing — T.L.Peacock > Sometimes it applies to a deliberate cleverness in factitious works < the contrived simplicity of the novel — C.C.Walcutt > devise may suggest reflection, analysis, and experimentation continued over a considerable period < Paterson gradually shifted from cotton to silk manufacture after 1840, when John Ryle devised a way of winding silk on a spool — American Guide Series: New Jersey > < a real science — as well as a real philosophy — of human nature could not be born until there were devised techniques of accurate observation and verified experiment — H.A.Overstreet > < within a year they had devised the “Pond alphabet” of the Sioux language — American Guide Series: Minnesota > invent may connote more of finding, discovering, making, or making up than of ingenuity or reflection < Newton invented the differential and the integral calculus and discovered the laws of motion — K.K.Darrow > < 1856, when simultaneously Bessemer invented his converter and Siemens introduced the open-hearth process — S.F.Mason > < his pains to invent a complete, generally unlovely terminology of his own — H.J.Muller > < he did not know the schoolteacher's name but invented one for her — Sherwood Anderson > < I invented a monster called Hormuz, who lived in the woods behind the town and devoured little children — John Reed > frame in this sense suggests a careful devising and constructing to fit a situation < framing legislation which may make valuable contributions to a badly needed national water policy — K.S.Davis > < absorbed in framing a question that he was intent on persuading a friend, who was a member of Parliament, to ask in the House of Commons — Osbert Sitwell > concoct may suggest devising by ingenious or inventive combining of ingredients < the most loathsome and noisome abominations that his fervid imagination could concoct out of his own bitter experiences and the manners and customs of his cruel times — C.W.Eliot > II. obsolete < contrive time > |
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