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

• 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。
• Your friend, meanwhile, has no need of these mental machinations.
  与此同时，你的朋友没有必要经历这些内心的矛盾。
• 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。
• This was after several machinations and outside events, including an earlier Bloomberg report that a deal was in the works.
  在此之前，已有多次私下密商和外部活动，包括彭博（Bloomberg）报道称，一项交易正在进行中。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They were enmeshed in villainous machinations.
  他们馅入了罪恶的阴谋之中。
• 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。