contrivance

Someone says that the contrivance person of the coffee of Ireland is all Berlin the bartender of the airport.

有人说爱尔兰咖啡的发明人是都柏林机场的酒保。

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。

If there is one criticism of this book, it is that there is an occasional sense of strain, of intellectual contrivance.

如果要说批评的话，就是文中偶然闪现的紧张感，理智分析的后果。

The Socratic dialectics, so magnificently exemplified in the dialogues of Plato, were a contrivance of this description.

象柏拉图对话中所例示的那样雄伟的苏格拉底式辩论法，就是我所说的这种办法。

Yet, the third definition of the word 'engineering' is 'skillful or artful contrivance; maneuvering. '

第三种关于‘工程学’的定义是‘熟练的或者巧妙的发明创造；机动。

The clock is , itself, a contrivance , of course, but no more so than other pretexts for a wintertime sexual encounter .

这个钟本身固然是一个发明，但不过是为冬天的性生活寻找其它借口而已。

In honor of contrivance country, 1926, the first batch world ping-pong championships holds in London.

为了纪念发明国，1926年，第一届世界乒乓球锦标赛在伦敦举行。

For centuries before , curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth.

（四册32）之前的几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置。

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。

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。

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。

The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron.

设计这样一个用铁和木制成的家伙显然极尽羞辱之能事。

A contrivance or an invention serving a particular purpose, especially a machine used to perform one or more relatively simple tasks.

为特定的目的而做出的设计或发明，尤指用于完成某个或几个简单的相关的任务的机器

Her book would sound like pure contemporary contrivance without this factual basis .

书名听起来像纯当代玄机没有事实依据。

Contrivance is obvious throughout the book.

全书从头至尾有明显的雕琢痕迹。

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。

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

Contrivance of the Author Palindrome Able was I ere I saw Elba.

在我看到厄尔巴岛之前，我曾所向无敌

An innovative or unusual mechanical contrivance ; a gadget .

小新发明一种创新的和特别的机械发明；小玩意儿。

The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.

这故事讲得毫不矫揉造作。