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

• 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。
• Despite a commitment to more open government, the public are still being kept in the dark about the inner machinations of the cabinet.
  尽管有政府事务公开化的承诺，公众对内阁内的勾心斗角仍一无所知。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Hotdoc has also covered the machinations of private Greek banks accused by George Papandreou, the former premier, of issuing thalassodaneia unsecured loans to favoured clients.
  《热文》还报道了希腊私人银行向自己青睐的客户发放无抵押贷款的阴谋，这种做法曾受到希腊前总理乔治帕潘德里欧（georgepapandreou）的指控。
• 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。