| 词汇 | contrive |
| 释义 | contrive verb[ T ] uk /kənˈtraɪv/ us /kənˈtraɪv/ to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning: 巧妙安排;谋划，策划 Couldn't you contrive a meeting between them? I think they'd really like each other.你不能为他们安排一次会面吗？我觉得他们真的互有好感。 [ + to infinitive ]Somehow she contrived to get tickets for the concert.她不知通过什么方式搞到了音乐会的门票。 to invent and/or make a device or other object in a clever and possibly unusual way: 设计;发明;创造 Do you think you could contrive something for hanging my clothes on until I can get a wardrobe?你能设计个东西让我在买到衣橱前挂衣服吗？ Planning, expecting and arranging accidentally accidentally on purposeidiom advertent advisedly aim at something bargain conscious have something in mindidiom have something up your sleeveidiom horizon scanning how are you fixed for something?idiom I'll/we'll cross that bridge when I/we come/get to itidiom pencil provident providently provision purpose purposefully purposely settle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Inventing, designing and innovation contrive | American Dictionarycontrive verb[ I/T ] us/kənˈtrɑɪv/ to arrange for something to happen or be done by being smart or deceiving others: [ I ]He somehow contrived to get tickets for the concert. [ T ]The two of them are contriving a plan. Examples of contrivecontrive Ultimately the pro-division faction contrived to get the government to support its position and when the ' rebel' party revolted, the federal army unleashed counter-revolutionary terror. The treatment is rigorous in this regard except that the examples often sound contrived and do not always cover the alternative patterns given. Indeed, 'unreal' examples like the second are expressly contrived to make them realizable in the contextual conditions of the classroom. Often these supernatural monsters are depicted as little more than solitary ambush predators dressed up in culturally contrived monster attire. The distinction between being able to do something and being able to bring oneself to do it is not contrived or esoteric. The resulting accent might be natural or contrived. In order to satisfy the requirements on the frequency of inflections and verb and adjective stems, some of the sentences sounded rather contrived. The dancing girls, however, have contrived to carry out their object without rendering themselves amenable to criminal prosecution. Thus, altogether unsurprisingly, the new rulers contrived to 'manipulate city space', conscripting architectural and urban form as the mediators of administrative, religious and social power. Although this constitutes an elegant example of an artificial neural network, the claim of biological relevance seems contrived. I have not modelled performance in this rather contrived task and hence cannot say what should be concluded from such a model. Real, authentic, naturally occurring are expressions which have (in corpus linguistic terms) a positive prosody, and unreal, inauthentic, contrived, artificial a negative one. The structure of the book is carefully contrived. All of this, let me hasten to add, is never suggested in a way that is in the least instructing, contrived, or improving. One of the striking features of this report is the way it contrives to present positive achievements in music as part of a criticism. See all examples of contrive 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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