contrive
contrive 英 [kənˈtraɪv] 美 [kənˈtraɪv]
vt. 图谋 vi. 谋划；设法做到
进行时:contriving 过去式:contrived 过去分词:contrived 第三人称单数:contrives
- When you contrive, you make a plan or a plot. It may take you longer to contrive your way out of doing your homework than would to actually do it.
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- vt. 图谋
- vi. 谋划；设法做到
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1. She contrived to spend a couple of hours with him every Sunday evening.
每周星期日晚上她都设法与他待上几个小时。
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2. I decided to contrive a meeting between the two of them.
我决定设法让他们双方见上一面。
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3. They contrived a plan to defraud the company.
他们精心策划要欺诈那家公司。
- contrive (v.) early 14c., controve, contreve, "to invent, devise, plan;" late 14c., "to manage by a plan or scheme," from Old French controver (Modern French controuver) "to find out, contrive, imagine," from Late Latin contropare "to compare" (via a figure of speech), from dissimilated form of Latin com "with, together" (see con-) + tropus "song, musical mode," from Greek tropos "figure of speech" (from PIE root *trep- "to turn").
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