scheme

noun

1. 计划；方案；体系；体制
   a plan or system for doing or organizing sth
   1. a training scheme
      培训方案
   2. a local scheme for recycling newspapers
      当地的报纸回收计划
   3. to introduce/operate a scheme to improve links between schools and industry
      推行 / 实施加强学校和业界之间联系的方案
   4. Under the new scheme only successful schools will be given extra funding.
      在新体制下，只有办得好的学校才可获得额外经费。
2. 阴谋；诡计；计谋
   a plan for getting money or some other advantage for yourself, especially one that involves cheating other people
   1. an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes
      周密的避税方案

verb

1. 密谋；秘密策划；图谋
   to make secret plans to do sth that will help yourself and possibly harm others
   1. She seemed to feel that we were all scheming against her.
      她似乎觉得我们都在算计她。
   2. His colleagues, meanwhile, were busily scheming to get rid of him.
      与此同时，他的同事在加紧谋划挤走他。
   3. Her enemies were scheming her downfall.
      她的敌人正密谋把她搞垮。
2. 想；认为
   to think or form an opinion about sth
   1. What do you scheme?
      你认为怎么样？
   2. ‘Do you think he'll come?’ ‘I scheme so.’
      “你认为他会来吗？”“我想会来。”

1. N-COUNT (政府或其他组织的)计划，方案，安排
   A scheme is a plan or arrangement involving many people which is made by a government or other organization.
   1. ...schemes to help combat unemployment.
      有助于减少失业的方案
   2. ...a private pension scheme...
      私人养老金计划
   3. The company was pouring around $30 million into the scheme.
      该公司要向该计划注资约 3,000 万美元。

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2. N-COUNT 计谋;阴谋;诡计;计划
   A scheme is someone's plan for achieving something.
   1. ...a quick money-making scheme to get us through the summer...
      能够让我们撑过这夏天的快速赚钱之道
   2. They would first have to work out some scheme for getting the treasure out...
      他们首先得想个法子把财宝取出来。
   3. Tourists can be vulnerable to scams and con schemes of all kinds.
      游客们会很容易陷入各种形形色色的骗局。
3. VERB 密谋;图谋;秘密策划
   If you say that people are scheming, you mean that they are making secret plans in order to gain something for themselves.
   1. Everyone's always scheming and plotting...
      人人时刻都在谋划着。
   2. The bride's family were scheming to prevent a wedding...
      新娘家人正密谋阻止婚礼。
   3. They claimed that their opponents were scheming against them...
      他们声称对手正在算计他们。
   4. You're a scheming little devil, aren't you?
      你是个耍阴谋诡计的小魔鬼，对不对？
4. See also: colour scheme pension scheme
5. PHRASE 人生的安排
   Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
   1. He did not quite know how to place women in his scheme of things.
      他不太清楚在自己的人生安排中应把女人摆在什么位置。
6. PHRASE (世界万物的)格局
   When people talk about the scheme of things or the grand scheme of things , they are referring to the way that everything in the world seems to be organized.
   1. We realize that we are infinitely small within the scheme of things.
      我们认识到在大千世界中我们极其渺小。

1. The scheme's investors, fearful of bankruptcy, decided to abandon the project.
   因为担心破产，该计划的投资者决定放弃这个项目。
2. This scheme was an abject failure.
   这项计划彻底失败了。
3. What a crazy scheme, and I use that term advisedly.
   这是个多么疯狂的计划，我用了那个词是斟酌过的。
4. He must have cooked up his scheme on the spur of the moment.
   他肯定是一时冲动策划了这个阴谋。
5. We devised a scheme to help him
   我们想出了一个帮他的计策。
6. They hope for government funding for the scheme
   他们希望政府为这个计划提供资金。
7. This is another half-baked scheme that isn't going to work
   这又是一个不靠谱的计划，是不会成功的。
8. This isn't the first hare-brained scheme he's had.
   这已经不是他制定的第一个愚蠢方案了。
9. He cannot reveal how much money is involved in the scheme
   他不能透露该计划投入了多少钱。
10. He landed a place on the graduate training scheme
    他在毕业生培训计划中赢得了一个位置。
11. The scheme is also open to non-members
    该方案也对非正式成员开放。
12. The scheme mostly benefits people in the North and Midlands.
    该方案主要的受益者是北部和中部地区的人们。
13. His company has the best pension scheme in the industry.
    他所在公司有本行业最好的养老金制度。
14. The service is being expanded following the success of a pilot scheme.
    在试验性方案获得成功后，这项服务正在推广中。
15. If the scheme appears to be a pyramid selling scam, have nothing to do with it.
    如果这个计划看起来像是一个传销骗局，那就不要参与。
16. The company was pouring around$ 30 million into the scheme.
    该公司要向该计划注资约3,000万美元。
17. They would first have to work out some scheme for getting the treasure out
    他们首先得想个法子把财宝取出来。
18. Everyone's always scheming and plotting
    人人时刻都在谋划着。
19. The bride's family were scheming to prevent a wedding
    新娘家人正密谋阻止婚礼。
20. They claimed that their opponents were scheming against them
    他们声称对手正在算计他们。
21. You're a scheming little devil, aren't you?
    你是个耍阴谋诡计的小魔鬼，对不对？
22. He did not quite know how to place women in his scheme of things.
    他不太清楚在自己的人生安排中应把女人摆在什么位置。
23. We realize that we are infinitely small within the scheme of things.
    我们认识到在大千世界中我们极其渺小。
24. The mayor's scheme offers incentives to firms setting up in lower Manhattan
    市长的方案激励了打算在曼哈顿下城开业的公司。
25. The scheme, due to begin next month, will be voluntary.
    定于下个月开始实施的方案是自愿性质的。
26. The scheme has been revised in accordance with the opinions of the masses.
    方案已按照群众意见修改了。
27. A scheme has been roughed out but it has yet to be discussed and amended.
    方案已经草拟出来了，但还要讨论和修改。
28. Such a scheme is workable.
    这样的方案是行得通的.
29. The enemy's scheme went bankrupt.
    敌人的计谋破产了。
30. The police have uncovered a scheme of robbery.
    警察当局破获了一起阴谋抢劫案。

  plan plot prepare schedule scheme【导航词义：安排，计划】

  plan v. 计划，安排

〔辨析〕普通用词，指事前仔细筹划、安排。

  plot v. 策划，密谋

〔辨析〕通常指秘密策划违法行为或针对某政要、政府的阴谋活动。

  prepare v. 筹备，作准备

〔辨析〕指为将要发生的事情作好计划、安排等。

  schedule v. 排定，预定

〔辨析〕指将某事安排在某一时间或日期进行，通常用被动语态。

  scheme v. 策划，密谋

〔辨析〕指为牟取私利而投机取巧或搞阴谋。

n.

the/sb's scheme of things

• 格局；心中的安排
  the way things seem to be organized; the way sb wants everything to be organized
  1. My personal problems are not really important in the overall scheme of things .
     从全局来看，我个人的问题并非十分重要。
  2. I don't think marriage figures in his scheme of things.
     我想，婚姻在他的心目中是无足轻重的。

noun

1. a schematic or preliminary plan

   Synonym:    outlineschema

2. an elaborate and systematic plan of action

   Synonym:    strategy

3. an internal representation of the world

   Synonym:    schema

4. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

   Synonym:    dodgedodging

5. a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
   1. a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going

   Synonym:    system

verb

1. form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

   Synonym:    intrigueconnive

2. devise a system or form a scheme for