contrivance
n. 發明; 發明才能; 想出的辦法; 發明物
If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances...
他們衣著簡樸,不使用那些現代的發明物。
music with a tendency towards contrivance and lack of substance.
矯揉造作而缺乏實質性內容的音樂
A contrivance is an unfair or dishonest scheme or trick to gain an advantage for yourself.
...some contrivance to raise prices.
提高價格的計謀
1. a device that is very useful for a particular job
2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill;
3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.;
5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use
6. the act of devising something
The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.
這孩子正在忙著做什麼手工.
His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track.
他的證詞只是為了讓我們脫離正軌的把戲而已.
Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.
這種機器是一般人發明不出來的.
A mechanical, electrical, or electronic contrivance with a specific purpose.
具有特定用途的機械 、 電氣或電子裝置.
Contrivance is obvious throughout the book.
全書從頭至尾有明顯的雕琢痕跡.