0 to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning:
1 to arrange for something to happen or be done by being smart or deceiving others:
Ultimately the pro-division faction contrived to get the government to support its position and when the ' rebel' party revolted, the federal army unleashed counter-revolutionary terror.
The treatment is rigorous in this regard except that the examples often sound contrived and do not always cover the alternative patterns given.
Indeed, 'unreal' examples like the second are expressly contrived to make them realizable in the contextual conditions of the classroom.
Often these supernatural monsters are depicted as little more than solitary ambush predators dressed up in culturally contrived monster attire.
The distinction between being able to do something and being able to bring oneself to do it is not contrived or esoteric.
The resulting accent might be natural or contrived.
In order to satisfy the requirements on the frequency of inflections and verb and adjective stems, some of the sentences sounded rather contrived.
The dancing girls, however, have contrived to carry out their object without rendering themselves amenable to criminal prosecution.
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巧妙安排, 謀劃,策劃, 設計…
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巧妙安排, 谋划,策划, 设计…
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arreglar, lograr, idear…
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arquitetar, conseguir, cuidar de…
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becermek, bir yolunu bulup halletmek, (argo) allem kallem edip halletmek…
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trouver moyen de, s’arranger pour, trouver moyen de faire…
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dokázat, dokázat vyrobit/udělat…
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formå, finde udveje for, lykkes…
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