contrived

There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said.

他说的话里没有任何蓄意捏造的成分。

He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the industries of other arrondissements.

在必要时，他还能帮助和发展其他县的工业。

The cause they contrived so painstakingly also ended in failure.

他们惨淡经营的事业也以失败而告终.

The plot seems contrived.

情节看起来不真实。

It mustn't sound like a contrived compliment.

它听起来不能像是虚情假意的恭维。

They somehow contrived to lose tens of thousands of applications.

他们精心策划故意遗失了数万份申请书。

She made full use of several pieces of calico and contrived a skirt from them.

她对几块印花棉布加以充分利用，设计出了一条裙子。

He contrived to make a mess of the whole thing.

他挖空心思反而把事情全盘弄糟了.

All events , however small , are contrived by God, or else the Devil.

事无巨细都是上帝或魔鬼的旨意.

The orchestra contrived to produce some of its best playing for years.

这支管弦乐队呈现了精彩的演奏，堪称其多年来的巅峰演奏。

He contrived to make the matter worse.

他图谋使事情恶化.

He contrived to make matters worse.

他弄巧成拙.

His paintings are contrived and formulaic.

他的绘画作品做作而又俗套。

If Gollum had contrived to follow them , he remained unseen and unheard.

如果咕噜仍然穷追不舍, 那他的身形和动静都掩饰得很好.

The book's happy ending seemed contrived.

这部书大团圆的结局读来让人感到不真实。

But she came across as on-key rather than contrived.

但选民觉得她的衣着相当协调，并没有造作感。

There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said

他说的话里没有任何蓄意捏造的成分。

By his knack of sermonizing and pious discoursing, he contrived to make a great impression on Mr Earnshaw; and the more feeble the master became, the more influence he gained.

约瑟夫极力凭着花言巧语和虔诚的说教，给恩萧先生一个很好的印象。主人越衰弱，他的势力越大。

The inventor contrived a new kind of engine with fewer moving parts.

这位发明家发明了一种具有较少运动部件的新型发动机.

He contrived a new machine for flying.

他设计了一种新式飞行器.

Despite the restricted space, the painter has contrived to surround them with a host of symbols.

尽管空间局促，画家还是在他们的周围精心布置了一系列象征。

'We're not that contrived. We're not that theatrical.' — 'That's a matter of opinion.'

“我们没那么造作，也没那么夸张。”——“见仁见智喽。”

great men, universally gifted, have contrived, with an incredible amount of thought, to make use of the paraphernalia of science itself, to point out the limits and the relativity of knowledge generally, and thus to deny decisively the claim of science to universal validity and universal aims.

那时，有些博学多才的伟大人物已经煞费苦心地使用科学武器来证明一般科学的局限性和条件性，从而决然否定科学自称普遍有效性和普遍目的性之夸谈。

She contrived a false story to hide the facts.

她捏造假情况以掩盖真相。

The humour of the play is self-conscious and contrived.

这部剧的幽默是刻意而为的，而且牵强做作。

The effects are not very good to forecast the disease using contrived or statistic method.

采用人为方式或者利用基于数理统计的方法进行疾病的诊断和预测效果并不理想。

After much difficulty, he contrived to stop drinking!

克服许多困难之后，他设法做到了戒酒！

"We're not that contrived. We're not that theatrical." — "That's a matter of opinion."

“我们没那么造作，也没那么夸张。”——“见仁见智喽。”

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。

Relieve us of this contrived confusion.

使我们自此造作的迷惑里缓解。