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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Zend Studio acts as your control panel, displaying information about the inner machinations of the engine.
  ZendStudio作为控制面板，显示关于引擎内部机制的信息。
• 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。
• 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。
• Similarly, readdir() and filetype() allow you to remain blissfully ignorant of the machinations and trappings of the real, underlying operating and file systems.
  类似地，readdir（）和filetype（）允许您不必了解真实的、底层操作和文件系统的圈套和陷阱。
• It has become axiomatic that central banks should be independent entities, insulated from the grubby machinations of politicians.
  央行应当成为不受政客肮脏阴谋影响的独立实体，这一点已成为不言自明的公理。
• These lawyers, this jury, this straw-and-water judge, these machinations of fate, did not basically disturb or humble or weaken him.
  这些律师，这个陪审团，这个随波逐流的推事，这些命运的暗算都没有从根本上使他觉得不安，或者自卑或者怯弱。
• 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。