contrivances

n．
常用释义
n．
1. 发明，设计：一个创造性的设备或方法。
2. 诡计，手段：为达到某种目的而采取的策略或手段。

扩展信息

设计
...devices）、公用设施（utilities）、设计（contrivances）、发明（inventions）、机械（machines）、技巧（artifices）、工 …

例句

The invention also relates to a method for producing analytical contrivances of the aforementioned kind and to the use thereof.

最后本发明还涉及一种用于制造这种分析辅助机构的方法及其应用。

and this is the office of equity, to support and protect the common law from shifts and crafty contrivances against the justice of the law.

这就是衡平法的职责，支持和保护普通法免遭朝令夕改和违背法律正义原则的诡计的侵害。

Moreover, continued the Sophists, human laws were clearly not part of nature, but were instead man-made contrivances and conventions.

另外，智者派还认为，人类的法则明显不属于自然法则，而是人为的规定或习俗。

the introduction of plot contrivances may at times seem unavoidable.

公式化情节的介绍不时会看起来不可避免。

Several contrivances of the author to please the king and queen.

作者“我”讨好国王和王后的几种方法；

Old Tom is full of contrivances.

老汤姆满脑子都是技巧。

house repairs are not improved by phony contrivances;

假装置没有改观房子的修缮；