词汇 | machinations |
释义 | machinations plural noun us/ˌmæk·əˈneɪ·ʃənz, ˌmæʃ-/ complicated and secret plans, esp. in obtaining or using power: She complained about the machinations political candidates employed to win. Examples of machinationsmachinations History is still ultimately a question of class struggle, and the developments of the nineteenth century are dominated by the machinations of bourgeois capital. How can a genuinely popular music stave off the machinations of the culture industry? No amount of harmonic or contrapuntal machinations succeed in aligning theme with key. Furthermore, the deliberations themselves give cause to revise the laudatory view, more or less explicit in social learning theory, of policy experts' machinations. Censorship, of course, played a part, as did government machinations and contrived impediments to travel. This study impressively documents the machinations of foreign entrepreneurs and the complicity of the domestic elite that led to that surrendering of control. The first is the presence of intellectual machinations as components of the policy process. Several fellow renovationists developed their distaste for the ecclesiastical bureaucracy by witnessing its machinations from within. Concentration on the machinations of the major labels over-privileges not only the recording sector, but also a particular business structure based on multinational operations. The details and machinations of creative exploratory data analyses, for example, are seldom reflected in the literature. The stress is on flexibility, mobility, mediations, machinations, intrigue, sometimes invisibility, and often an ' intentional muddying of the waters ' (p. 113). They generally focus upon the domestic balance of power between the state and illegally armed actors and/or the political machinations of party and domestic economic elites. Carter does not attempt to veil his disdain for the political machinations of the conservative ' counterrevolution ', a factor that at times makes his tone overly polemical. For one could have the power and knowledge to engineer microscopic happenings as desired, but unless such machinations result in macroscopic effects, this would only remain a curiosity. But the poor economic base of central government funding, and political machinations at regional and district level, mean that insufficient resources actually return to the base. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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