device
n. 裝置,器具; 爆炸裝置; 策略,技巧; 詭計; (文學作品中)修辭手段
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小時保護車輛的電子裝置
...a device that could measure minute quantities of matter...
能夠測量微量物質的裝置
A device is a method of achieving something.
They claim that military spending is used as a device for managing the economy.
他們聲稱軍費開支是用來作為調控經濟的手段的。
...the literary device of the metaphor.
隱喻的文學手法
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.
任其自由發揮時,奧斯本是一個彈奏流暢、常常富有創意的吉他手。
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
這些名詞均有"儀器,裝置,器械,器具"之意。
leave someone to their own devices
讓…自行其是,聽任…自行決定
leave to (one's) own devices
聽任某人自行其事:允許某人按自己的意願做事
The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.
警方懷疑那個裝置不是真炸彈,只是一個假貨.
The device will be in production by the end of the year.
該裝置將於年底投入生產.
It is an electronic device with many uses.
這是一部具有多種用途的電子儀器.
This device is the offspring of his inventive mind.
這一裝置是他那長於發明的頭腦的產兒.
They have primed the explosive device.
他們已使爆炸裝置準備起爆.