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。
• He could no longer endure the machinations of his colleagues.
  他再也不能忍受他那伙同僚的诡计了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They care little for the machinations and politics of "ground folk", and they rarely interfere with changeling society.
  它们对“地面人类”的诡计和政治不感兴趣，因此他们几乎不干扰低能级社会的事物。
• 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。
• Unification of aim: survival and avoidance of the destruction hanging over your heads as a consequence of the machinations of psychopathy.
  统一的目标：精神变态者的企图导致幸存和避免毁灭在你们的头脑中盘旋。