contrive现在分词

1. 设计，发明，创造 ，创制
2. 图谋，策划，谋划
3. 设法做到，以计谋达成，设法应付，促成某事，巧妙地策划
4. 熟练地造出，精巧地制造（如机器），制作
5. 计划，设计
6. 料理家务，治家

1. vt. 谋划〔策划〕(某事); 设计; 发明 plan (sth) cleverly or deceitfully; invent; an experiment
2. vi. 设法做到 manage to do sth

1.图谋;策划;谋划
If youcontrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.

e.g. The oil companies were accused of contriving a shortage of gasoline to justify price increases.
石油公司被控故意制造石油短缺以名正言顺地提高油价。

2.发明;(精巧地)设计出，制造
If youcontrive something such as a device or piece of equipment, you invent and construct it in a clever or unusual way.

e.g. We therefore had tocontrive a very large black-out curtain.
因此我们得制作一块很大的遮光窗帘。

3.成功做到;设法做到
If youcontrive to do something difficult, you succeed in doing it.

e.g. 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。

4.(用欺骗的手法)策划，图谋，设法做到
When someone has done something dishonestly, you can say that theyhave contrived to do it.

e.g. 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。

1. We can contrive without meat.
   没有肉我们也能设法料理。

1. He contrived to make a mess of the whole thing.
   他偏偏把一切弄糟了。
2. Can you contrive to be here a little earlier?
   你能不能早一点来?

• ingeniously contrive精巧地设计
• viciously contrive恶意地策划

• contrive from设法利用

contrive, manage

这两个词都可表示“设法做到”,用作不及物动词表示“可以办得到,能维持”时，两个词可通用。

1.当后面跟动词不定式时, contrive用在将来时中,表示说话人实际所做的努力,至于是否成功,说话人则无把握,仅表示朝着成功的方向努力,用于过去时中表示“设法,图谋”,有时表示“竟然弄到…的地步”; manage则强调虽然有一定困难,最后还是设法完成了。

2.contrive是个较正式的词,不如manage用得普遍。