machinations

英 [ˌmækɪˈneɪʃənz]

美 [ˌmækəˈneɪʃənz]

n.  (尤指夺权的)阴谋，诡计，奸计

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 阴谋;诡计;奸计
  You usemachinationsto describe secret and complicated plans, especially to gain power.
  1. ...the political machinations that brought him to power.
     将他推上权力宝座的政治阴谋
  2. ...the machinations of the currency speculators.
     货币套利者的阴谋诡计

双语例句

• To understand the machinations of love.
  会理解爱的小花招。
• It would expose the political machinations behind banks that exploit public trust.
  这将暴露出利用公众信任的银行背后的政治图谋。
• The idea is to simply observe the thoughts and impressions, but at the same time subtly detach yourself from the machinations and goings on inside.
  冥想的要领在于仅仅去旁观那些思绪与印象，而同时巧妙地将你自己与大脑内的思维机制相脱离。
• If you've ever been on the receiving end of such anxious machinations, you know they make you want to run, not bond.
  如果你曾经作为这种焦虑、阴谋诡计中的一位受方，你会知道他们是在让你逃之夭夭，而不是建立紧密关系。
• Their good intentions, bony torsos, tight ships, neat corners, cerebral machinations, and pat solutions loom like dark clouds over the loose, comfortable, spread-out, soft world of the fat.
  他们的善意、严谨、高效、整洁、干巴巴的躯干、聪明把戏和成套的解决方法，像乌云一样在胖人宽松、舒服、敞开和柔软的世界里时隐时现。
• After a convoluted series of legal machinations, Nintendo successfully negotiated with the Soviets and emerged with the worldwide rights to create handheld and console versions of the game.
  经过一系列法律上错综复杂的勾心斗角，任天堂成功地与苏联人达成协议，获得了在全球发行该游戏掌上机和游戏机版本的权利。
• Despite all their machinations, they didn't inherit a single penny.
  尽管他们施尽了阴谋诡计，他们也没继承到一个子。
• The South Sea Bubble was the result of ruinous machinations by Britain's lord treasurer, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, who was looking to fund the national debt.
  南海泡沫的起因是英国时任财政大臣罗伯特•哈利（RobertHarley）伯爵希望为国债融资而制造的毁灭性阴谋。
• But there is also, in all likelihood, a kind of recognition and form of empathy in Beijing for the bizarre machinations and public trials of Pyongyang.
  但北京方面多半也会对平壤的离奇阴谋和公开审判怀有某种认可和同情。
• It is, after all, easy to blame trade imbalances on the evil exchange rate machinations of others.
  毕竟，将贸易失衡归咎于他国操纵汇率的阴谋诡计是很容易的。