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

• Chinese officials have openly voiced opposition to US machinations in the past.
  中国官员在公开场合表示反对美国的阴谋。
• 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。
• That it was human to avoid the peril of death and infamy, and the inscrutable machinations of an enemy;
  为了避免死亡和耻辱的危险，以及一个敌人的莫测的诡计，出走原是合乎情理的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They were enmeshed in villainous machinations.
  他们馅入了罪恶的阴谋之中。
• It would expose the political machinations behind banks that exploit public trust.
  这将暴露出利用公众信任的银行背后的政治图谋。
• 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。