If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
例句
There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said...他說的話里沒有任何蓄意捏造的成分。It mustn't sound like a contrived compliment.它聽起來不能像是虛情假意的恭維。
ADJ-GRADED
(戲劇、電影、小說等)虛構的,不足信的,不真實的
If you say that the plot of a play, film, or novel is contrived, you mean that it is unlikely and unconvincing.
例句
The plot seems contrived.情節看起來不真實。
英漢詞典釋義
adj.
不自然的;勉強的
the carefully contrived image of party unity精心拼造出的黨內團結形象
英英詞典釋義
Adjective
1. showing effects of planning or manipulation;
"a novel with a contrived ending"
2. artificially formal;
"that artificial humility that her husband hated""contrived coyness""a stilted letter of acknowledgment""when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"