及物动词
1. How could you contrive to make such a mess of things?
你怎么把事情弄得一团糟呢？
2. He contrived a new machine for flying.
他设计了一种新式飞行器。
3. The writer contrived a happy ending.
作者安排了一个大团圆的结局。
4. The couple contrived to bring up their children on a small income.
这对夫妻设法以菲薄的收入把孩子扶养成人。
不及物动词
1. She found it difficult to contrive when prices of everything went up.
百物涨价时，她觉得料理家务很难。
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2. 设法,图谋：claim要求 | contrive设法,图谋 | consent同意,赞同
3. 发明：contrite后悔的,a | contrive发明v | conversant熟悉的,亲近的a
4. 发明,设计,想出：Reinforce增强,指给予更多的力量或效力; | Contrive发明,设计,想出. | 29.Intense强烈的,与feeling搭配表示强烈的感情
1. 图谋;策划;谋划
If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
e.g. The oil companies were accused of contriving a shortage of gasoline to justify price increases.
石油公司被控故意制造石油短缺以名正言顺地提高油价。
2. 发明;(精巧地)设计出，制造
If you contrive something such as a device or piece of equipment, you invent and construct it in a clever or unusual way.
e.g. We therefore had to contrive a very large black-out curtain.
因此我们得制作一块很大的遮光窗帘。
3. 成功做到;设法做到
If you contrive to do something difficult, you succeed in doing it.
e.g. The orchestra contrived to produce some of its best playing for years.
这支管弦乐队呈现了精彩的演奏，堪称其多年来的巅峰演奏。
4. (用欺骗的手法)策划，图谋，设法做到
When someone has done something dishonestly, you can say that they have contrived to do it.
e.g. They somehow contrived to lose tens of thousands of applications.
他们精心策划故意遗失了数万份申请书。
verb
1. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
e.g. excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Synonym: inventdeviseexcogitateformulateforge
2. put or send forth
e.g. She threw the flashlight beam into the corner
The setting sun threw long shadows
cast a spell
cast a warm light
3. make or work out a plan for
devise
e.g. They contrived to murder their boss
design a new sales strategy
plan an attack