1. He erected some contrivance for storing rain-water. 他装设了一种贮存雨水的器具。
2. Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people. 这种机器是一般人发明不出来的。
3. Most poor nations, living very hard, create contrivance, this road, they walk. 多数贫穷国家，生活十分艰苦，创造发明，这条道路，他们走。
英英解释
n.
1. a device or control 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
网络释义
contrivance 工具;
发明;
设备;
公式化情节;
switching contrivance 电门设备;
开关设备;
contrivance device 发明物;
movable contrivance 可移动装置;
可移动装置 劳工;
invent invention contrivance contrive devise father originate think up 发明;
