device
n. 装置,器具; 爆炸装置; 策略,技巧; 诡计; (文学作品中)修辞手段
A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
...an electronic device that protects your vehicle 24 hours a day.
24小时保护车辆的电子装置
...a device that could measure minute quantities of matter...
能够测量微量物质的设备
A device is a method of achieving something.
They claim that military spending is used as a device for managing the economy.
他们声称军费开支是用来作为调控经济的手段的。
...the literary device of the metaphor.
隐喻的文学手法
If you leave someone to their own devices, you leave them alone to do as they wish.
Left to his own devices, Osborn is a fluent — and often original — guitarist.
任其自由发挥时,奥斯本是一个弹奏流畅、常常富有创意的吉他手。
1. an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose;
2. something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
3. any clever (deceptive) maneuver;
4. any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
5. an emblematic design (especially in heraldry);
apparatus, instrument, device, equipment, tool, implement, installation, appliance, facilities
这些名词均有"仪器,设备,器械,器具"之意。
leave someone to their own devices
让…自行其是,听任…自行决定
leave to (one's) own devices
听任某人自行其事:允许某人按自己的意愿做事
The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.
警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹,只是一个假货.
The device will be in production by the end of the year.
该装置将于年底投入生产.
It is an electronic device with many uses.
这是一部具有多种用途的电子仪器.
This device is the offspring of his inventive mind.
这一装置是他那长于发明的头脑的产儿.
They have primed the explosive device.
他们已使爆炸装置准备起爆.