contrivance

Các nghĩa

1. thiết bị, dụng cụ

   A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.

2. mưu kế, kế hoạch

   A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.

   And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance.

3. sự giả tạo, sự khiên cưỡng

   Something overly artful or artificial.

   The retrospective emphasis on these two specific stories—even their mention here, in the previous paragraph—has become a contrivance.

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• contrivances plural