contrive contrived

• contrive 是一个动词，意思是“设计，计划，想出，制造”等。它可以用于以下结构：

• contrive to do something: 尽管有困难，设法做某事。例如：She contrived to spend a couple of hours with him every Sunday evening. 她设法每个星期天晚上和他一起度过几个小时。

• contrive something: 成功地做出某事，尤指有困难的事。例如：I decided to contrive a meeting between the two of them. 我决定安排他们两个见面。

• contrive something: 以巧妙的方式想出或制造某物，例如一个计划或一台机器。例如：They contrived a plan to defraud the company. 他们想出了一个欺骗公司的计划。

• contrived 是一个形容词，意思是“不自然的，做作的，勉强的”等。它可以用来形容某物或某人的外表或品质。例如：The plot of the movie was too contrived. 这部电影的情节太牵强了

来自于法语的controver，意思是发现，设计，想象。这个词又来自于拉丁语的contropare，意思是比较，由com（一起）和tropus（修辞）组成。

• trope: 修辞，比喻，转义

• tropic: 回归线，热带

• tropical: 热带的

• tropism: 向性，趋向性

• entropy: 熵，热力学中的一种物理量

• heliotrope: 向日葵，紫罗兰

• phototropic: 向光性的

• geotropic: 向地性的

He was a scientist, obsessed with finding the secrets of life. He contrived (设计，发明，创造) a machine that could manipulate the entropy (熵，热力学中的一种物理量) of living organisms, increasing or decreasing their order and complexity. He experimented on plants, animals, and even humans, without any regard for ethics or morality. He wanted to create a new tropic (回归线，热带), a new balance between chaos and harmony. He used tropes (修辞，比喻，转义) to justify his actions, calling himself a god or a devil, depending on his mood. He was fascinated by the tropism (向性，趋向性) of his subjects, how they reacted to his stimuli, how they adapted or perished. He was especially interested in the heliotrope (向日葵，紫罗兰), a flower that showed both phototropic (向光性的) and geotropic (向地性的) responses. He wanted to make it grow in a tropical (热带的) environment, to see how it would change. He was his own contrived (人为的，做作的，不自然的) experiment, a madman playing with nature.