Contrive
[kən'traɪv]
解释:
(v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
(v. i.) To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
整理:莱昂内尔
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Devise, plan, design, invent, project, hatch, brew, form, frame, concoct, COMPASS, fall upon, hit upon, strike out, chalk out.
v. n. Scheme, plot, plan, consider, set one's wits to work, rack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, strain one's invention, cast about.
编辑:沃伦
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Plan, design, arrange, fabricate, adapt, manage, scheme, devise, concert,adjust
ANT:Hit, hazard, run, chance, venture, bungle, overvault, overdo
柯蒂斯校对
解释:
v.t. (obs.) to spend as time.
v.t. to plan: to invent: to bring about or effect: to plot.—adj. Contriv′able that may be contrived.—ns. Contriv′ance Contrive′ment act of contriving: the thing contrived: invention: design: artifice; Contriv′er a schemer a manager.
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例句:
- Ada would contrive to take him, somehow, he said. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Do pray contrive to get acquainted with them. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- He would analyze his own machinations: elaborately contrive plots, and forthwith indulge in explanatory boasts of their skill. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- But I was so much displeased, that I entreated Glumdalclitch to contrive some excuse for not seeing that young lady any more. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- We could iv'ry one be a Wellington--that would please ye, Mr. Helstone--and sich paragraphs as we could contrive for t' papers! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The French were among the first to contrive such regulators,--Duboscq, Foucault, Serrin, Houdin, and Lontin invented most useful forms of such apparatus. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- You must contrive to send somebody. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- But the queen had before contrived another project. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- We have used for a number of years in this laboratory a form of constant water bath which was contrived by Mr. Edward Bogardus, formerly chemist to the New Jersey State Geological Survey. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- To me it was, and ever must be an enigma, how they contrived to spend so much time in doing so little. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- A man, for instance, is vain of a beautiful house, which belongs to him, or which he has himself built and contrived. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Yes, answered I, putting my hand into his, and again I contrived to forget Lady W----. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself; but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- She procured plain work; she plaited straw; and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- They will talk of it freely, even before others whose pockets they are thus contriving to pick by this piece of knavery. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- To these scanty means of improvement, she added another of her own contriving. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Then arose the necessity of contriving some form of bridge of extensive span that would be sufficiently strong and rigid for railway trains to pass over them in safety. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- It's my sister's contriving. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He's a very contriving chap is our William. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Wonderful ingenuity has been shown in contriving a means to enable people to ascend the Wetterhorn Mountain in Switzerland. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- At this very moment he is wild to see you, and occupied only in contriving the means for doing so, and for making his pleasure conduce to yours. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- But how she contrives it without reflecting on the character of her own father, who had himself two wives, I know not. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- He contrives and finishes a canoe by the help of a fellow-servant, and puts to sea at a venture. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
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