contrivance

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Only human art or science or art, human contrivance, can bring about peace.
只有人類的藝術(shù)或科學(xué)，人類的發(fā)明，能夠帶來和平。
But I no longer feel in myself the same unbounded profusion of ready contrivance.
但是我自己卻不再感到我急中生智的能力還是那般的無限豐富了。
Yet, the third definition of the word 'engineering' is 'skillful or artful contrivance; maneuvering.'
第三種關(guān)于‘工程學(xué)’的定義是‘熟練的或者巧妙的發(fā)明創(chuàng)造；機(jī)動。

Only human art or science or art, human contrivance, can bring about peace.
只有人類的藝術(shù)或科學(xué)，人類的發(fā)明，能夠帶來和平。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
In other words, for Hobbes, authority and relations of authority do not arise naturally among us, but are rather, again, like civil science itself, the product of contrivance or art.
換句話說，對于霍布斯，權(quán)力和權(quán)力關(guān)系,并不自然而然產(chǎn)生于我們之中，不如說是，像平民科學(xué)一樣，是發(fā)明或藝術(shù)的產(chǎn)物。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Like their very names, Ms Wiggins's characters never quite dispel a whiff of contrivance.
ECONOMIST: New American fiction
It was a cog in the machinery of a three-country contrivance for cleansing illicit profits.
FORBES: Magazine Article

If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
A contrivance is an unfair or dishonest scheme or trick to gain an advantage for yourself.