She contrived to spend a couple of hours with him every Sunday evening.

每周星期日晚上她都设法与他待上几个小时。

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This is an event contrived to create news coverage where none had been considered warranted.

这是一件刻意制造新闻报道的事件，且没有人认为这是有根据的。

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He had also contrived to catch a few bats, and these, also, he had eaten, leaving only their claws.

他还设法捉了几只蝙蝠，除了爪子都吃完了。

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And you'll find in the end that recursion is a feature of a language, it allows you to map some very obvious concepts like the phonebook tearing in half and half and half and half to actual code without it using some arbitrary human contrived framework like a for loop or a while loop which are much more stilted mechanisms.

最后你会发现递归是某种语言的一种特征,你可以用它将一些非常明显的思想,比如将电话簿划分为一半又一半,映射为实际代码，而不必使用那些人为框架,像for循环，while循环之类的,那是很呆板的机制。

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Reid's men took the lead before half-time but contrived to concede three after the restart.

BBC: Hamilton defence must improve, says manager Billy Reid

After the qualifiers, Italy contrived to lose a friendly to Belgium, their second opponents in Euro 2000.

BBC: Dino Zoff

The new commission should have contrived to award Mr Van Buitenen a medal.

ECONOMIST: Jacob Soderman, wrist-tapper general