• contrive 是一個動詞，意思是“設(shè)計，計劃，想出，制造”等。它可以用于以下結(jié)構(gòu)：

• contrive to do something: 盡管有困難，設(shè)法做某事。例如：She contrived to spend a couple of hours with him every Sunday evening.?她設(shè)法每個星期天晚上和他一起度過幾個小時。

• contrive something: 成功地做出某事，尤指有困難的事。例如：I decided to contrive a meeting between the two of them.?我決定安排他們兩個見面。

• contrive something: 以巧妙的方式想出或制造某物，例如一個計劃或一臺機器。例如：They contrived a plan to defraud the company.?他們想出了一個欺騙公司的計劃。

• contrived 是一個形容詞，意思是“不自然的，做作的，勉強的”等。它可以用來形容某物或某人的外表或品質(zhì)。例如：The plot of the movie was too contrived.?這部電影的情節(jié)太牽強了

來自于法語的controver，意思是發(fā)現(xiàn)，設(shè)計，想象。這個詞又來自于拉丁語的contropare，意思是比較，由com（一起）和tropus（修辭）組成。

• trope: 修辭，比喻，轉(zhuǎn)義

• tropic: 回歸線，熱帶

• tropical: 熱帶的

• tropism: 向性，趨向性

• entropy: 熵，熱力學(xué)中的一種物理量

• heliotrope: 向日葵，紫羅蘭

• phototropic: 向光性的

• geotropic: 向地性的

He was a scientist, obsessed with finding the secrets of life. He contrived (設(shè)計，發(fā)明，創(chuàng)造) a machine that could manipulate the entropy (熵，熱力學(xué)中的一種物理量) 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 (回歸線，熱帶), a new balance between chaos and harmony. He used tropes (修辭，比喻，轉(zhuǎn)義) to justify his actions, calling himself a god or a devil, depending on his mood. He was fascinated by the tropism (向性，趨向性) of his subjects, how they reacted to his stimuli, how they adapted or perished. He was especially interested in the heliotrope (向日葵，紫羅蘭), 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 (熱帶的) environment, to see how it would change. He was his own contrived (人為的，做作的，不自然的) experiment, a madman playing with nature.