contrives
v. (不顧困難地)促成某事( contrive的第三人稱單數 ); 巧妙地策劃,精巧地製造(如機器); 設法做到
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.
石油公司被控故意製造石油短缺以名正言順地提高油價。
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.
因此我們得製作一塊很大的遮光窗簾。
If you contrive to do something difficult, you succeed in doing it.
The orchestra contrived to produce some of its best playing for years.
這支管絃樂隊呈現了精彩的演奏,堪稱其多年來的巔峰演奏。
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.
他們精心策劃故意遺失了數萬份申請書。
The striver contrives to derive that privacy can't be deprived.
奮鬥者想方設法推導得出隱私(權)不可剝奪.
Chance contrives better than we ourselves.
機遇往往出人意料;人算不如天算.