Contrive
[kən'traɪv]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
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.
編輯:沃伦
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Plan, design, arrange, fabricate, adapt, manage, scheme, devise, concert,adjust
ANT:Hit, hazard, run, chance, venture, bungle, overvault, overdo
柯蒂斯校對
解釋/意思:
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.
希勒尔錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Ada would contrive to take him, somehow, he said. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Do pray contrive to get acquainted with them. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He would analyze his own machinations: elaborately contrive plots, and forthwith indulge in explanatory boasts of their skill. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- But I was so much displeased, that I entreated Glumdalclitch to contrive some excuse for not seeing that young lady any more. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- 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. 雪麗.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- You must contrive to send somebody. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- But the queen had before contrived another project. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- 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.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- 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. 維萊特.
- A man, for instance, is vain of a beautiful house, which belongs to him, or which he has himself built and contrived. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Yes, answered I, putting my hand into his, and again I contrived to forget Lady W----. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- She procured plain work; she plaited straw; and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- They will talk of it freely, even before others whose pockets they are thus contriving to pick by this piece of knavery. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- To these scanty means of improvement, she added another of her own contriving. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It's my sister's contriving. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He's a very contriving chap is our William. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Wonderful ingenuity has been shown in contriving a means to enable people to ascend the Wetterhorn Mountain in Switzerland. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- But how she contrives it without reflecting on the character of her own father, who had himself two wives, I know not. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He contrives and finishes a canoe by the help of a fellow-servant, and puts to sea at a venture. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
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