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Contrived Call Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词   [Disapproval Plot 英 Kən'traɪvd] 美

英语单词 contrived
英美音标 英 [kən'traɪvd] 美 [kən'traɪvd]
中文释义 adj.人为的;做作的;不自然的
动词contrive的过去式和过去分词.
英语例句 (1) In application of material, we can't totally cast away the contrived things.
(2) If you read between the lines, you can detect his contrived explanation.
(3) The book's happy ending seemed contrived.
(4) The humour of the play is self-conscious and contrived.
中文例句 (1) 在物质的运用上,我们也已经深陷其中,完完全全的脱离不掉人为的参与了。
(2) 在字里行间,你可以看出他牵强的解释。
(3) 这部书大团圆的结局读来让人感到不真实。
(4) 这部剧的幽默是刻意而为的,而且牵强做作。
vocabulary简明 If you see something that seems fake since it was too perfectly planned out, call it contrived. If you can easily predict the final minutes of a made-for-TV movie, then call it contrived.
vocabulary扩展 The adjective contrived describes something that is artificially planned, especially in an obvious way, so it comes across as faked or forced. It's not just drama that can come off as contrived. Someone's speech habits, wardrobe, or even personality can seem contrived. Whenever someone appears as if he or she is "trying too hard," they might seem contrived, or the opposite of "natural."
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]人为的;虚假的;捏造的;矫揉造作的 If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
  [disapproval]
  • 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。

  • It mustn't sound like a contrived compliment.

    它听起来不能像是虚情假意的恭维。

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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](戏剧、电影、小说等)虚构的,不足信的,不真实的 If you say that the plot of a play, film, or novel is contrived, you mean that it is unlikely and unconvincing.
  [disapproval]
  • The plot seems contrived.

    情节看起来不真实。

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