参考例句

1. Curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth.

   曲面镜不是用来产生真实影像，而是用来产生幻影（即假象）的流行器件。

2. He erected some contrivance for storing rain-water.

   他装设了一种贮存雨水的器具.

3. Some things are beyond human contrivance .

   有些事情人们是无能为力的.

4. His personal force and genius, combined with so much persuasion and contrivance , swept aside many obstacles.

   他本人的精力与才华，再加上他能循循善诱，办法也多，就把许许多多的障碍一扫而光。

5. In the night I took my first contrivance , and got up into a tree.

   到了夜里，我又拿出我的老办法来，爬到一棵大树上。

6. The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance .

   这孩子正在忙着做什么手工。

7. It was another good contrivance .

   这又是一种不错的新设计。

8. a new contrivance for milking cows

   一种挤牛奶的新机器

9. an ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it

   为使她不经过目就签署文件的妙计.

10. A literary contrivance , such as parallelism or personification, used to achieve a particular effect.

    拟人文学上的一种修辞方法，如比拟或似人法，用以达到某种特别的效果

同义词

• appliance
• contraption
• convenience
• devisal
• dodge
• gadget
• gismo
• gizmo
• lash-up
• stratagem
• widget