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单词 machinations
释义
machinations
noun[plural]
uk
/ˌmæʃ.ɪˈneɪ.ʃənz//ˌmæk.ɪˈneɪ.ʃənz/us
/ˌmæʃ.əˈneɪ.ʃənz//ˌmæk.əˈneɪ.ʃənz/
complicatedandsecretplansto getpowerorcontrolor togainanadvantage:
（为夺取权力的）阴谋，诡计
Despite acommitmentto a moreopengovernment, thepublicis still beingkeptin thedarkabout theinnermachinationsoftheCabinet.尽管政府承诺提高透明度，但公众对内阁内部的勾心斗角仍一无所知。
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(Definition ofmachinationsfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

machinations| American Dictionary

machinations
plural noun
us
/ˌmæk·əˈneɪ·ʃənz,ˌmæʃ-/
complicatedandsecretplans,esp. inobtainingor usingpower:
Shecomplainedabout the machinationspoliticalcandidatesemployedtowin.
(Definition ofmachinationsfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmachinations

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History is still ultimately a question of class struggle, and the developments of the nineteenth century are dominated by themachinationsof bourgeois capital.
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How can a genuinely popular music stave off themachinationsof the culture industry?
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No amount of harmonic or contrapuntalmachinationssucceed in aligning theme with key.
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Furthermore, the deliberations themselves give cause to revise the laudatory view, more or less explicit in social learning theory, of policy experts'machinations.
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Censorship, of course, played a part, as did governmentmachinationsand contrived impediments to travel.
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This study impressively documents themachinationsof foreign entrepreneurs and the complicity of the domestic elite that led to that surrendering of control.
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The first is the presence of intellectualmachinationsas components of the policy process.
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Several fellow renovationists developed their distaste for the ecclesiastical bureaucracy by witnessing itsmachinationsfrom within.
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Concentration on themachinationsof the major labels over-privileges not only the recording sector, but also a particular business structure based on multinational operations.
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The details andmachinationsof creative exploratory data analyses, for example, are seldom reflected in the literature.
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The stress is on flexibility, mobility, mediations,machinations, intrigue, sometimes invisibility, and often an ' intentional muddying of the waters ' (p. 113).
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Trollope's lighthearted dismissal of the castle's terrors seems to signal that her modern text will eschew the gothic's clumsymachinations.
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They generally focus upon the domestic balance of power between the state and illegally armed actors and/or the politicalmachinationsof party and domestic economic elites.
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Carter does not attempt to veil his disdain for the politicalmachinationsof the conservative ' counterrevolution ', a factor that at times makes his tone overly polemical.
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For one could have the power and knowledge to engineer microscopic happenings as desired, but unless suchmachinationsresult in macroscopic effects, this would only remain a curiosity.
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