Adjective:

1. showing effects of planning or manipulation;

   "a novel with a contrived ending"
   

2. artificially formal;

   "that artificial humility that her husband hated"
   "contrived coyness"
   "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"
   "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
   

1.人为的;虚假的;捏造的;矫揉造作的
If you say that something someone says or does iscontrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.

e.g. There was nothingcontrived or calculated about what he said...
他说的话里没有任何蓄意捏造的成分。
e.g. It mustn't sound like acontrived compliment.
它听起来不能像是虚情假意的恭维。

2.(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 iscontrived, you mean that it is unlikely and unconvincing.

e.g. The plot seemscontrived.
情节看起来不真实。

1. 做作的：相比Restlet,这导致了很多做作的(contrived)代码. 以Django为例,它并不天然支持在URI和资源之间映射的URI模板. 而Rails强迫在关系数据库和对数据的CRUD操作间使用一种不自然的映射,REST/HTTP方法导致一种令人不满意的结果:开发人员不得不在各种限制下工作,

2. contrived

2. 人为的：contrive 发明 |contrived 人为的 | contriver 发明者

3. 不自然的 做作的：imitation 仿制的 人造的 |contrived 不自然的 做作的 | false 假的 不正确的

4. 不自然的,飞即兴而成的：36, Demonstrate 论证,证明 | 37,contrived 不自然的,飞即兴而成的 | 38, Prestige 威信,威望,声望

The orchestra contrived to produce some of its best playing for years.

这支管弦乐队呈现了精彩的演奏，堪称其多年来的巅峰演奏。

His paintings are contrived and formulaic.

他的绘画作品做作而又俗套。

The plot seems contrived.

情节看起来不真实。

She contrived to spend a couple of hours with him every Sunday evening.

每周星期日晚上她都设法与他待上几个小时。

The book's happy ending seemed contrived.

这部书大团圆的结局读来让人感到不真实。

The cause they contrived so painstakingly also ended in failure.

他们惨淡经营的事业也以失败而告终.

He contrived to make matters worse.

他弄巧成拙.

He contrived a new machine for flying.

他设计了一种新式飞行器.

He contrived to make the matter worse.

他图谋使事情恶化.

'We're not that contrived. We're not that theatrical.' 'u2014 'That's a matter of opinion.'

“我们没那么造作，也没那么夸张。”——“见仁见智喽。”

It mustn't sound like a contrived compliment.

它听起来不能像是虚情假意的恭维。

They somehow contrived to lose tens of thousands of applications.

他们精心策划故意遗失了数万份申请书。

The inventor contrived a new kind of engine with fewer moving parts.

这位发明家发明了一种具有较少运动部件的新型发动机.

All events , however small , are contrived by God, or else the Devil.

事无巨细都是上帝或魔鬼的旨意.

He contrived to make a mess of the whole thing.

他挖空心思反而把事情全盘弄糟了.