They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances.

他们穿着简单，避免了现代装束。

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。

The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise ;

最有希望的发明当它们问 世时就带着潜在的邪恶。

BIOGRAPHIES can be wearisome contrivances, often too long and too detailed for their own good.

传记的编写常常让人感到无法卒读，过于冗长，过于详尽。

Convex quays for larger ships are only practical when floating fenders or other contrivances are used.

用于停泊大型船只的凸形堤岸式码头只有在有沉浮式防冲材或者其他设施的情况下才能使用。

The invention also relates to a method for producing analytical contrivances of the aforementioned kind and to the use thereof.

最后本发明还涉及一种用于制造这种分析辅助机构的方法及其应用。

It's a watchable thriller, but it struggles to overcome plots holes and narrative contrivances, and it's never actually very scary.

这是个值得一看的恐怖片，但是它并没有克服情节空洞和叙述式的计谋这些缺点，最要命的是它一点儿也不恐怖。

Moreover, continued the Sophists, human laws were clearly not part of nature, but were instead man-made contrivances and conventions.

另外，智者派还认为，人类的法则明显不属于自然法则，而是人为的规定或习俗。

They are not mere stylistic contrivances, but evolutionary adaptations to the transcendent needs of human beings – they form the genius loci.

那不是纯粹风格上的发明物，而是适应众多人类需求的进化物—他们形成了场所精神。

Nothing can be more charming than the, tales of his mechanical contrivances when he was a boy. There are his telescopes and his optical experiments.

没有什么能比他在还是一个小男孩时所做的机械发明这个传说更引人入胜的了，那里他创造了自己的望远镜和光学实验。

That said, watching things on the iPhone can be annoying, especially since we all wind up propping the thing up on all sorts of strange contrivances.

话说回来，在iPhone上看东西会是苦恼的，特别是用各种奇怪的工具把iPhone支撑起来这事给我们带来很多麻烦。

The basins should not be curved as this makes berthing inconvenient. Convex quays for larger ships are only practical when floating fenders or other contrivances are used.

港地不能是弧形的，因为弧形的港地船只不便停靠。用于停泊大型船只的凸形堤岸式码头只有在有沉浮式防冲材或者其他设施的情况下才能使用。

It also invented some of the tricks and contrivances now associated with East Asia's aggressive export promotion, such as allowing exporters to reclaim duties paid on imported inputs.

它还自创了一些“招数”和“机关”，使人不由联想到当今东亚颇具扩张性的出口鼓励政策，比如允许拿外国进口关税补贴本国出口商的出口关税等措施。