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

• These blatant machinations, where everything was imitation and nothing was real, leached away support for United Russia even before the elections.
  在这些无耻的政治阴谋中一切都是虚假的，没有真实，而早在选举之前这些阴谋就已经造成对统俄党的支持消散了。
• To understand the machinations of love.
  会理解爱的小花招。
• 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。
• This will invariably attract nasty people as well as good people, and you'll soon learn that nasty people have rich incentives to be that way, and are thus very clever in their machinations.
  而这总是能同时引起好人和坏人的注意力，而且您将能很快了解到坏人在这个方面的创意也很丰富，并且所借助的工具也很智能。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Luckily, most of these complex machinations are hidden from view or are made convenient to use through user interfaces, such as the shell and windowing tools.
  好在这些复杂的花样大都被隐藏起来，不会被看到，或可以通过用户界面（如shell或窗口工具）很方便地使用。
• Chinese officials have openly voiced opposition to US machinations in the past.
  中国官员在公开场合表示反对美国的阴谋。
• Cunning men often pass for wise; deep political machinations; a foxy scheme; a slick evasive answer; sly as a fox; tricky dick; a wily old attorney.
  狡猾的人经常被看作是聪明人；老谋深算的政治诡计；狡诈的计划；狡诈回避的回答；狡猾得像只狐狸；狡猾的迪克；狡猾的老讼棍。