名词
1. Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.
这种机器是一般人发明不出来的。
2. Some things are beyond human contrivance.
有些东西非人力所能创造。
1. 公式化情节：continuity clerk 场记 | contrivance 公式化情节 | convention 成规
2. 发明：contrivable 可发明的 | contrivance 发明 | contrive 发明
3. 工具：contributory pore volume 供油孔隙体积 | contrivance 工具 | contriver 发明人
1. 不自然的东西;矫揉造作之物
If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
e.g. They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances...
他们衣着简朴，不使用那些现代的发明物。
e.g. music with a tendency towards contrivance and lack of substance.
矫揉造作而缺乏实质性内容的音乐
2. 诡计;计谋;阴谋
A contrivance is an unfair or dishonest scheme or trick to gain an advantage for yourself.
e.g. ...some contrivance to raise prices.
提高价格的计谋
noun
1. the act of devising something
Synonym: devisal
2. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
Synonym: appliancecontraptionconveniencegadgetgizmogismowidget
3. any improvised arrangement for temporary use
Synonym: lash-up
4. the faculty of contriving
inventive skill
e.g. his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
5. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
e.g. the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
6. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
e.g. his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track