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单词 contrive
释义
contrive
verb[T]
uk
/kənˈtraɪv/us
/kənˈtraɪv/
toarrangeasituationorevent, orarrangefor something tohappen, usingcleverplanning:
巧妙安排；谋划，策划
Couldn't you contrive ameetingbetween them? Ithinkthey'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 contrivedtogetticketsfor theconcert.她不知通过什么方式搞到了音乐会的门票。
toinventand/or make adeviceor otherobjectin acleverandpossiblyunusualway:
设计；发明；创造
Do youthinkyou could contrive something forhangingmyclotheson until I can get awardrobe?你能设计个东西让我在买到衣橱前挂衣服吗？
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Planning, expecting and arranging
  • accidentally
  • accidentally on purposeidiom
  • advertent
  • advisedly
  • aim atsomething
  • bargain
  • I might have knownidiom
  • insomeone'scrosshairsidiom
  • in the pipelineidiom
  • in the worksidiom
  • intend
  • planner
  • provision
  • purposely
  • put the cart before the horseidiom
  • puttheirheads togetheridiom
  • rearrange
  • reckon onsomething
  • settle
  • sleeve
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Inventing, designing and innovation
(Definition ofcontrivefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

contrive| American Dictionary

contrive
verb[I/T]
us
/kənˈtrɑɪv/
toarrangefor something tohappenor be done by beingsmartordeceivingothers:
[I]Hesomehowcontrived to getticketsfor theconcert.
[T]The two of them are contriving aplan.
(Definition ofcontrivefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontrive

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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.
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The treatment is rigorous in this regard except that the examples often sound contrived and do not always cover the alternative patterns given.
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Indeed, 'unreal' examples like the second are expressly contrived to make them realizable in the contextual conditions of the classroom.
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Often these supernatural monsters are depicted as little more than solitary ambush predators dressed up in culturally contrived monster attire.
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The distinction between being able to do something and being able to bring oneself to do it is not contrived or esoteric.
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The resulting accent might be natural or contrived.
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In order to satisfy the requirements on the frequency of inflections and verb and adjective stems, some of the sentences sounded rather contrived.
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The dancing girls, however, have contrived to carry out their object without rendering themselves amenable to criminal prosecution.
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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.
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Although this constitutes an elegant example of an artificial neural network, the claim of biological relevance seems contrived.
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I have not modelled performance in this rather contrived task and hence cannot say what should be concluded from such a model.
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Real, authentic, naturally occurring are expressions which have (in corpus linguistic terms) a positive prosody, and unreal, inauthentic, contrived, artificial a negative one.
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The structure of the book is carefully contrived.
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All of this, let me hasten to add, is never suggested in a way that is in the least instructing, contrived, or improving.
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One of the striking features of this report is the way it contrives to present positive achievements in music as part of a criticism.
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