contrives
v. (不顾困难地)促成某事( contrive的第三人称单数 ); 巧妙地策划,精巧地制造(如机器); 设法做到
If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
The oil companies were accused of contriving a shortage of gasoline to justify price increases.
石油公司被控故意制造石油短缺以名正言顺地提高油价。
If you contrive something such as a device or piece of equipment, you invent and construct it in a clever or unusual way.
We therefore had to contrive a very large black-out curtain.
因此我们得制作一块很大的遮光窗帘。
If you contrive to do something difficult, you succeed in doing it.
The orchestra contrived to produce some of its best playing for years.
这支管弦乐队呈现了精彩的演奏,堪称其多年来的巅峰演奏。
When someone has done something dishonestly, you can say that they have contrived to do it.
They somehow contrived to lose tens of thousands of applications.
他们精心策划故意遗失了数万份申请书。
The striver contrives to derive that privacy can't be deprived.
奋斗者想方设法推导得出隐私(权)不可剥夺.
Chance contrives better than we ourselves.
机遇往往出人意料;人算不如天算.