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contrivance是什么意思？

contrivance

英[kənˈtraɪvəns] 美[kənˈtraɪvəns]
  • 复数：contrivances;
    • 相关单词 contrivances
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    • Noun
      1. a device that is very useful for a particular job
      2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill;
      "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
      3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
      "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
      4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.;
      "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
      5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use
      6. the act of devising something