Contrivance

例句/造句/用法:

• The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• But this is no slack philosophy, for the chance is denied by which we can lie back upon the perfection of some mechanical contrivance. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• The quality is the beauty, and the subject is the house, considered as his property or contrivance. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• He had not confessed to himself yet that he had done anything in the way of contrivance to this end; he had accepted what seemed to have been offered. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• He was altogether discontented with the result of a contrivance which had cost him some secret humiliation beforehand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• In another part of the _Times_ establishment there is an ingenious machine for wetting the paper, by which contrivance much labour and time are saved. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• Can he possibly preserve a right to that character, if by fraud, stratagem, or contrivance, he avoids that payment in whole or in part? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• In 1631 Jean Rey just inverted this contrivance, filling the bulb with water. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
• When parties in a state are violent, he offered a wonderful contrivance to reconcile them. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
• This instrument was improved and it gave rise to the contrivance of many delicate surgical instruments for operating on the eye. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• The steam was admitted into and escaped from the cylinder by the working of a four-way cock, the contrivance of the slide-valve being then unknown. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• To-day within the Socialist Party there is perhaps the greatest surviving example of the desire to offset natural leadership by artificial contrivance. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance; his lameness made him fond of sedentary occupation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• It was protected from the weather by an ingenious little tarpaulin contrivance in the nature of an umbrella. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• 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. 世紀發明.
• The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Such contrivances are of no use, said the easy Rector. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• 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. 神奇的知識之書.
• The contrivances of modern days indeed have rendered a gentleman's carriage perfectly complete. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• Special contrivances, wonderful in their operation, were invented to meet exigencies and emergencies. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• 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. 世紀發明.
• 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• 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. 世紀發明.
• I think what you call the makeshift contrivances at dear Helstone were a charming part of the life there. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• 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. 世紀發明.
• No useful contrivances are suddenly or apparently ever entirely supplanted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Few of the useful contrivances had been invented yet, and almost any one of these chaps might be a genius. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.

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