英语释义

1. humanly contrived (see contrive sense 1b) often on a natural model man-made
an artificial limb artificial diamonds

2. having existence in legal, economic, or political theory

3. caused or produced by a human and especially social or political agency
an artificial price advantage Within these companies, qualified women run into artificial barriers that prevent them from advancing to top positions in management.
— James J. Kilpatrick

4. lacking in natural or spontaneous quality
an artificial smile an artificial excitement

5. imitation, sham
artificial flavor

6. based on differential morphological characters not necessarily indicative of natural relationships
an artificial key for plant identification

7. artful, cunning

8. not natural or real made, produced, or done to seem like something natural

9. not happening or existing naturally created or caused by people

10. not sincere

11. made by humans
an artificial lake

12. not natural in quality
an artificial smile

13. made to seem like something natural
artificial flowers artificial flavoring

14. humanly contrived often on a natural model
an artificial limb

15. based on differential morphological characters not necessarily indicative of natural relationships
an artificial key for identification of a group of organisms

16. made by humans
artificial accessions — compare natural

17. caused or produced by a human and especially social or political agency
an artificial price advantage

18. arising through operation of law

片语

stiffness僵硬；坚硬；不自然；顽固

theatricality戏剧风格；不自然；夸张

英汉例句

• Because of this, internal control of the enterprise reveals its main function. Perfect internal control is the key for each enterprise to reduce cost, artificialness and improve the benefit mostly.

  在这样的大背景下，企业的内部控制更加显示出其举足轻重的地位，完善自己的内部控制也成了如今各大企业能否降低成本和人为因素，最大程度地提高企业经济效益的关键之所在。

• Compared with what people do in real life, they can play completely different roles in the network. People put off their masks for there isn't any restriction or artificialness in the net.

  它使人们可以随心所欲地扮演与现实生活迥然不同的新角色，使人们摆脱了在现实中的种种约束和不自然，使人们卸下在现实生活中的重重面具。

相似词

affected影响；假装；使…感动（affect的过去式和过去分词）

assumed假装的；假设的；篡夺的

bogus伪币

contrived人为的；做作的；不自然的

factitious人为的，人工的；不自然的；虚假的

fake(Fake) （印）费克（人名）

falsead 欺诈地

feigned假装；捏造（feign的过去式）

forced强迫（force的过去式）

mechanical机械的；力学的；呆板的；无意识的；手工操作的

mock嘲笑，（通过模仿）嘲弄；不尊重，蔑视；使显得可笑

plastic塑料制的；人造的，不自然的；（物质、材料）可塑的；产生立体感的；塑性的；有创造力的；适应环境变化的

pretended假装（pretend的过去式和过去分词）；装扮

pseudo冒充的，假的

sham(Sham)人名；(英、印、毛里塔)沙姆

simulated模仿（simulate的变形）；假装

spurious假的；伪造的；欺骗的

strained使紧张（动词strain的过去式和过去分词）

unnatural不自然的；反常的；不近人情的

相反词

artless天真的；朴实的；无虚饰的

genuine真实的，真正的；诚恳的

natural自然的事情；白癡；本位音

spontaneous自发的；自然的；无意识的

unaffected不受影响的；自然的；真挚的；不矫揉造作的

uncontrived未预谋的

unfeigned真实的，不虚伪的

unforced非被强迫（unforce的过去分词）