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

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.

Most poor nations, living very hard, create contrivance, this road, they walk.

多数贫穷国家, 生活十分艰苦, 创造发明, 这条道路, 他们走.

Some things are beyond human contrivance.

有些事情人们是无能为力的.

It was another good contrivance.

这又是一种不错的新设计.

He erected some contrivance for storing rain water.

他装设了一种贮存雨水的器具.

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.

Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.

不过,她的神机妙算究竟造成了多大幸福, 她一直到第二天早上才知道.

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.

Contrivance is obvious throughout the book.

全书从头至尾有明显的雕琢痕迹.

A mechanical, electrical, or electronic contrivance with a specific purpose.

具有特定用途的机械 、 电气或电子设备.

Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.

这种机器是一般人发明不出来的.

His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track.

他的证词只是为了让我们脱离正轨的把戏而已.

Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine booklovers.

那些努力培养自己真正热爱读书的人实在是幸福的.

He suddenly seemed capable, an official, a man to contrive to direct, to get things done.

他突然显得精明能干, 象是一名官员, 一个运筹帷幄,发号施令, 完成大业的人.

To produce or contrive ( something previously unknown ) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.

发明运用智谋或想象生产或设计 ( 以前未知的东西 )

The nice dream could and would come true if we contrive for it.

只要我们共同努力,一切美好的未来将很快到来!

Their naughty children always contrive to make such a mess of things.

他们家那些淘气的孩子们老是把家里弄得一团糟.

NRSV Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who contrive mischief by statute?

藉着律例设法造成灾祸的邪恶的掌权者能与你联合 吗 ?

Easy contrive Yu Ming the place of, clear generation already entered tribute tea.

大方创制于明代, 清代已入贡茶之列.

Can you contrive to be at the station by noon?

你能设法在中午前赶到车站 吗 ?