1. (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.

    e.g. ...schemes to help combat unemployment.
           有助于减少失业的方案
    e.g. ...a private pension scheme...
           私人养老金计划

2. 计谋;阴谋;诡计;计划
    A scheme is someone's plan for achieving something.

    e.g. ...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
    e.g. 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. 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.

scheme的翻译

    e.g. Everyone's always scheming and plotting...
           人人时刻都在谋划着。
    e.g. The bride's family were scheming to prevent a wedding...
           新娘家人正密谋阻止婚礼。

4. see also: colour scheme;pension scheme

5. 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.

scheme的反义词

    e.g. 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. (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.

    e.g. 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。