英德
有道
百度
谷歌
图片
维基
百科
contrived [kən'traivd]
a. 人造的, 勉强的, 不自然的
- Noticeably contrived; artificial.
明显人为的；做作的 - The prisoner contrived a way to escape.
囚犯图谋越狱。 - If you read between the lines, you can detect his contrived explanation.
在字里行间,你可以看出他牵强的解释。
contrived
[ adj ]
- showing effects of planning or manipulation
- artificially formal
<adj.all>
a novel with a contrived ending
<adj.all>
that artificial humility that her husband hated
contrived coyness
a stilted letter of acknowledgment
when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation
Contrive \Con*trive"\ (k[o^]n*tr[imac]v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Contrived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contriving}.] [OE. contriven,
contreven, controven, to invent, OF. controver, contruver;
con- + trouver to find. See {Troubadour}, {trover}.]
To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to
design; to plan.
What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of
the universe than infinite wisdom. --Tillotson.
neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught
against his life. --Hawthorne.
Syn: To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot;
concert; hatch.
{Contrived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contriving}.] [OE. contriven,
contreven, controven, to invent, OF. controver, contruver;
con- + trouver to find. See {Troubadour}, {trover}.]
To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to
design; to plan.
What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of
the universe than infinite wisdom. --Tillotson.
neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught
against his life. --Hawthorne.
Syn: To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot;
concert; hatch.
- "Funerals seem to be a place where people can meet without too much being written into it," Scalapino wrote recently. "It doesn't seem contrived." John F. Kennedy's funeral provided the setting for many high-level meetings in Washington.
- In practice, this policy has led Moscow to pursue a two-pronged effort: the imposition of a contrived historical legitimacy to justify a vigorous program of Russification of the other republics.
- She was always impeccably turned out as prime minister. Perhaps the image was too contrived.
- No fixed solutions are contrived for all the difficult questions of theme and substance, yet all seems lucidly realised.
- And so the long day wears on. Unlike Salaam Bombay, Mira Nair's new film is painfully alphabetical in its guide to modern-day race attitudes and painfully contrived in the way it routes its central romance through the appropriate stations of bigotry.
- The setting is of a rocky wilderness - rather too contrived in its menace - and the action well-staged, well-danced.
- It's not contrived in any way." An estimated 2.5 million to 3 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of severe intellectual impairment in older people.
- The Republicans are hoping for audiences of 20-odd million people each night and they plan to use the forum to launch a broad attack on the Democratic nominee. Of course, this contrived drama has some of the supporting players jumping through hoops.
- For Mr. Russell interpolates several contrived flashbacks to account for his characters' aimlessness and fear of commitment, and works in a number of pretentious references to atomic apocalypse.
- The authors do try to account for the obvious difficulties in extrapolating from such contrived experiments to real-world behavior.
- But what keeps the contrived enterprise trotting along is a Disney specialty: a dog.
- It seems that the harder A N Wilson tries to inject life into emotion, the more academic and contrived it appears.
- Yet it was an exteriorised performance, and like most of what we saw, brilliantly contrived.
- IBM's tests are 'contrived', Intel executives say.
- Some businessmen have contrived alternatives to price increases.
- The ending is so blatantly contrived that it earns laughs for its artificiality.
- A lot of people don't seem to like Dwight Yoakam. He has that nasal twang, he wears silly skintight pants, and his self-proclaimed "hillbilly music" seems a mite contrived to some people.
- He has tried to inject some tension by dragging Nancy's angry, deserted husband onto the scene, but this plot line seems thin and contrived.
- There was a certain amount of staginess and contrived emotion and a great many nonsequiturs in their unscripted monologues.
- Consider the recent changes in your Milwaukee Journal." Both ads involved contrived quotes.
- If the administration now advocates government subsidies for reducing steel capacity and, therefore, potential steel output, it will be forced to argue that such contrived output reductions are permissible only when orchestrated by the government.
- This scene certainly illustrates the emptiness of Gatsby's contrived world.
- "The allegations are bogus and contrived," Yeres said Monday. He said he plans to respond in detail through his own court filing.
- Is there any mention of the unique force and presence of the fashioned object or contrived surface, that is the work of art?
- He added that Gorbachev "contrived to let it be thought that all these initiatives are actually his."
- Witness, (9.30 BBC1) a 1985 thriller, takes an American Amish community as its background; an idea which might have seemed contrived but works well.
contrived
contrived scarcity
contriver
contrlled avalanche r...
contro
control
control ability
control abstraction
control accelerometer
control access
control account
control accounting
control accuracy
control action
control action coeffi...
control activity
control actuator
control adapter
control address register
control agent
control air
control air type redu...
control air valve
control aircylinder
control algorithm
control ampere turns
control ampere-turn
control ampereturns
control amplifier
control and monitor c...
control and performan...
control and primary s...
control and read-only...
control and read-only...
control and simulatio...
control animal
control antenna
control apparatus
control appliance
control application
control area
control area split
control arm
control assembly
control augmentation
control augmentation ...
control augmentation ...
control authority
control automation sy...
control azimuth
control balance
control ball
control band
control behavior
control bench board
control bit
control block
control block event
control blower
control board
contrived scarcity
contriver
contrlled avalanche r...
contro
control
control ability
control abstraction
control accelerometer
control access
control account
control accounting
control accuracy
control action
control action coeffi...
control activity
control actuator
control adapter
control address register
control agent
control air
control air type redu...
control air valve
control aircylinder
control algorithm
control ampere turns
control ampere-turn
control ampereturns
control amplifier
control and monitor c...
control and performan...
control and primary s...
control and read-only...
control and read-only...
control and simulatio...
control animal
control antenna
control apparatus
control appliance
control application
control area
control area split
control arm
control assembly
control augmentation
control augmentation ...
control augmentation ...
control authority
control automation sy...
control azimuth
control balance
control ball
control band
control behavior
control bench board
control bit
control block
control block event
control blower
control board
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
中国词汇量第二的英语词典
更多精彩，登录后发现......
