contrived
音标：
英音/ kənˈtraɪvd / 美音/ kənˈtraɪvd /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
“Empire of Light” occasionally overplays its sentiment — a subplot involving an injured bird feels manufactured and contrived.
《光之帝国》有时会夸大其情感——涉及一只受伤的小鸟的次要情节让人感觉是人为制造的。
—Washington Post
The votes are a formality — part of the Kremlin’s contrived political theater designed to create a veneer of legitimacy for its domestic audience.
投票只是一种形式，是克里姆林宫精心设计的政治舞台的一部分，旨在为其国内观众营造合法性的假象。
—Washington Post
It all felt so underhand and contrived in those days.
在那些日子里，这一切都让人感觉那么卑鄙和做作。
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
showing effects of planning or manipulation
人为的；做作的；不自然的
同义词：
artificial,hokey,stilted
短释义：
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.”
如果你看到一些因为计划得太完美而显得虚假的东西，那就称之为做作。如果你能轻易预测一部电视电影的最后几分钟，那就可以称之为做作。
长释义：
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.”
形容词人造的描述了人为计划的事情，尤其是以明显的方式，所以它给人一种伪造或强迫的感觉。不只是戏剧会显得做作。某人的言语习惯、着装甚至性格都可能显得做作。每当有人表现得“太努力”时，他们可能会显得做作，或者与“自然”相反。
文学例句：
“Let me help you here, sir,” the ticket seller said, in that comically contrived “white” accent that uneducated people liked to put on.
“先生，我来帮你吧。”售票员用一种未受过教育的人喜欢用的滑稽的“白人”口音说道。
—Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Not yet? Not if some better way can be contrived?”
“还没有？如果能想出更好的办法的话就不行吗？”
—The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Daedalus was the architect who had contrived the Labyrinth for the Minotaur in Crete, and who showed Ariadne how Theseus could escape from it.
代达罗斯是一位建筑师，他为克里特岛的牛头怪设计了迷宫，并向阿里阿德涅展示了忒修斯如何逃离迷宫。
—Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
词源：
contrive (v.)early 14c., controve, contreve, “to invent, devise, plan;” late 14c., “to manage by a plan or scheme,” from Old French controver (Modern French controuver) “to find out, contrive, imagine,” from Late Latin contropare “to compare” (via a figure of speech), from an assimilated form of Latin com “with, together” (see con-) + tropus “song, musical mode,” from Greek tropos “figure of speech” (from PIE root *trep- “to turn”).
Sense evolution (in French) was from “invent with ingenuity” to “invent falsely.” Spelling in English was altered by the same unexplained 15c. sound change that also affected briar, friar, choir. Related: Contrived; contriving.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
contrive (v.)early 14c., controve, contreve, “发明，设计，计划；” 14世纪末，“通过计划或方案进行管理”，源自古法语 controver (现代法语 controuver)，“找出、设计、想象”，源自晚期拉丁语 contropare“比较”（通过修辞手法），源自拉丁语 com“与，一起”的同化形式（参见 con-）+ tropus“歌曲，音乐模式”，来自希腊语 tropos“修辞格”（来自 PIE 根 *trep-“转动”）。感官进化（法语）是从“独创性发明”到“错误发明”。英语拼写也被同样无法解释的 15c 改变了。声音的变化也影响了布莱尔、修道士、唱诗班。相关：做作；设计。相关条目及更多
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