contrivances

例句:

• They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances.
  他们衣着简朴，不使用那些现代的发明物。
  
• The film is spoilt by unrealistic contrivances of plot.
  这部电影被不实际的牵强情节给毁了。
  
• In our dearth of ack - ack guns all sorts of contrivances were used.
  在缺少高射炮的时候,我们利用了各种各样的巧妙方法.
  
• Weaseling contrivances like 'You can't prove a negative' ?
  来自SA
• The "morality" that's under discussion here is a network of political contrivances, not a reflection of our innate moral senses.
  来自SA
• The mystery that is popular taste acts as a check, however modest, on the industry's manipulations and contrivances.
  来自WSJ