Of, relating to, or being a contrivance that brings about by complicated means what apparently could have been accomplished simply.

小题大做的，化简为繁的：通过复杂的方法做明显可以简单的完成的事的，或与之有关的。

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The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.

这故事讲得毫不矫揉造作。

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Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.

这种机器是一般人发明不出来的。

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While that really did happen to "Your Show of Shows, " it feels like a contrivance, an excuse for comedy.

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The story's climax turns out to be anticlimactic, a predictable contrivance that pits the countess, for the last time, against Chertkov, who wants to manage Tolstoy's death as he managed his life.

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The whole plot is a pretty dumb contrivance, but, if you want to be picky, that's exactly what a plot always is.

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