Contrivance

(noun.) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; 'his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem'.

(noun.) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; 'the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable'.

(noun.) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; 'his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track'.

杰西整理

• The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• But this is no slack philosophy, for the chance is denied by which we can lie back upon the perfection of some mechanical contrivance. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The quality is the beauty, and the subject is the house, considered as his property or contrivance. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He had not confessed to himself yet that he had done anything in the way of contrivance to this end; he had accepted what seemed to have been offered. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He was altogether discontented with the result of a contrivance which had cost him some secret humiliation beforehand. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In another part of the _Times_ establishment there is an ingenious machine for wetting the paper, by which contrivance much labour and time are saved. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Can he possibly preserve a right to that character, if by fraud, stratagem, or contrivance, he avoids that payment in whole or in part? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• In 1631 Jean Rey just inverted this contrivance, filling the bulb with water. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• When parties in a state are violent, he offered a wonderful contrivance to reconcile them. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• This instrument was improved and it gave rise to the contrivance of many delicate surgical instruments for operating on the eye. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The steam was admitted into and escaped from the cylinder by the working of a four-way cock, the contrivance of the slide-valve being then unknown. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• To-day within the Socialist Party there is perhaps the greatest surviving example of the desire to offset natural leadership by artificial contrivance. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance; his lameness made him fond of sedentary occupation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was protected from the weather by an ingenious little tarpaulin contrivance in the nature of an umbrella. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Such contrivances are of no use, said the easy Rector. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Not the least curious of the smaller contrivances is an apparatus which deserves notice as a useful application of magnetism to manufacturing purposes. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• One trouble with all these contrivances was that, although they aided man to figure, they offered no means of making a record of the work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The contrivances of modern days indeed have rendered a gentleman's carriage perfectly complete. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Special contrivances, wonderful in their operation, were invented to meet exigencies and emergencies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Now it is attended from the day of its planting until it reaches the lips of the consumer by contrivances of consummate skill to fit it for its destined purpose. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The history of inventions is the history of new and useful contrivances made by man for practical purposes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I think what you call the makeshift contrivances at dear Helstone were a charming part of the life there. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Special contrivances and adaptations of the telegraph for printing stock reports and for transmitting fire alarm, police, and emergency calls, have been invented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No useful contrivances are suddenly or apparently ever entirely supplanted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Few of the useful contrivances had been invented yet, and almost any one of these chaps might be a genius. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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