Contrivances

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• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Such contrivances are of no use, said the easy Rector. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Not the least curious of the smaller contrivances is an apparatus which deserves notice as a useful application of magnetism to manufacturing purposes. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• One trouble with all these contrivances was that, although they aided man to figure, they offered no means of making a record of the work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The contrivances of modern days indeed have rendered a gentleman's carriage perfectly complete. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Special contrivances, wonderful in their operation, were invented to meet exigencies and emergencies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Now it is attended from the day of its planting until it reaches the lips of the consumer by contrivances of consummate skill to fit it for its destined purpose. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The history of inventions is the history of new and useful contrivances made by man for practical purposes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I think what you call the makeshift contrivances at dear Helstone were a charming part of the life there. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Special contrivances and adaptations of the telegraph for printing stock reports and for transmitting fire alarm, police, and emergency calls, have been invented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No useful contrivances are suddenly or apparently ever entirely supplanted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Few of the useful contrivances had been invented yet, and almost any one of these chaps might be a genius. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Several contrivances of the author to please the king and queen. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• In fact, his practical contrivances won such repute that it is not easy to separate the historical facts from the legends that enshroud his name. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• By supplemental contrivances the paper is cut into sheets, piled together, and presented in a salable form. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Railway Locomotion, however, forms no exception to the rule, that most modern inventions have their prototypes in the contrivances of ages past. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Democracy has put an unfounded faith in automatic contrivances. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He it was who invented a gas purifier, liquid gas meter, and other useful contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I got up a motor and put it on the scales and tried a large number of different things and contrivances connected to the motor, to see how it would lighten itself on the scales. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The carts and conveyances of the poor were cumbrous, heavy contrivances, without springs, mostly two-wheel, heavy carts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The One, Useful Contrivances of Man; the Other, New Things Found in Nature. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Spindles, shuttles, wheels, and contrivances, plying ideally within the same; rather hopeless-looking, which, however, he did at last bring to bear. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• About nine-tenths of these contrivances have been invented during the 19th century, although the philosophical principles of the operation of most of them had been previously discovered. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Thus far the reddleman had been tolerably successful in his rude contrivances for keeping down Wildeve's inclination to rove in the evening. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Eustacia was nettled by her own contrivances. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Systems, institutions and mechanical contrivances have for him no virtue of their own: they are valuable only when they serve the purposes of men. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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