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 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。
• But there is also, in all likelihood, a kind of recognition and form of empathy in Beijing for the bizarre machinations and public trials of Pyongyang.
  但北京方面多半也会对平壤的离奇阴谋和公开审判怀有某种认可和同情。
• After a convoluted series of legal machinations, Nintendo successfully negotiated with the Soviets and emerged with the worldwide rights to create handheld and console versions of the game.
  经过一系列法律上错综复杂的勾心斗角，任天堂成功地与苏联人达成协议，获得了在全球发行该游戏掌上机和游戏机版本的权利。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。