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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• To understand the machinations of love.
  会理解爱的小花招。
• They were enmeshed in villainous machinations.
  他们馅入了罪恶的阴谋之中。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。