contrivance是什么意思

双语用例

• With care and sensitivity he manages to juxtapose, place and transform his field recordings without contrivance.

• In spite of the clear benefit with the use of 'unreal' examples, there is a persistent prejudice against such contrivance.

• This is only a preliminary surprise as readers familiar with the joyful outcome of his contrivance already know.

• Punctuation delineates rhetorical structure, so that a reader can be explicitly alerted to certain formal contrivances relevant to the communicative significances embodied in a text.

• Lest one think that this type of sample-tosample difference is a theoretical contrivance unlikely to happen in practice, several simple "thought experiments" suggest the opposite.

• Anything more is merely a superfluous philosophical contrivance.

• These technical contrivances constitute the substance of the economic process.

• These rights are never given by nature, but are rather the result of social - and normally governmental - contrivance.