device
四级,六级,考研,托福,1
英[dɪ'vaɪs]
|美[dɪ'vaɪs]
日语:デバイス
法语:appareil
德语:Gerät
韩语:장치
俄语:dispositivo
牛津词典
noun
- 装置;仪器;器具;设备
an object or a piece of equipment that has been designed to do a particular job
- a water-saving device
节水装置 - electrical labour-saving devices around the home
节省劳力的各种家用电器
- 炸弹;爆炸性武器;爆炸装置
a bomb or weapon that will explode
- A powerful device exploded outside the station.
一枚威力巨大的炸弹在车站外爆炸了。 - the world's first atomic device
世界第一枚原子弹
- 手段;策略;方法;技巧
a method of doing sth that produces a particular result or effect
- Sending advertising by email is very successful as a marketing device.
作为一种营销手段,用电子邮件发送广告是非常成功的。
- 花招;计谋;诡计
a plan or trick that is used to get sth that sb wants
- The report was a device used to hide rather than reveal problems.
这份报告不是揭露问题而是为掩盖问题而耍的花招。
词形变化
中文词源
device 仪器
来自devise, 用作名词。
双语例句
- The device plugs into one of the laptop's USB ports.
这个设备可以插入到笔记本电脑的一个通用串行总线接口。
- This device helps make virtual reality a more usable and accessible technology.
这一装置有助于使虚拟现实成为更可用、更便利的技术。
- For the rest of the day, he worked on the assembly of an explosive device.
在那天余下的时间里,他继续组装爆炸装置。
- The documents contain a blueprint for a nuclear device.
文件内附有一张核装置的设计蓝图。
- The new device can also cancel the check after the transaction is complete.
交易完成后,这种新设备也能注销支票。
- France is expected to detonate its first nuclear device in the next few days
法国预计将在几天后引爆其首枚核装置。
- An explosive device detonated on the roof of the building.
一个爆炸装置在该楼的楼顶爆炸了。
- We believe that an explosive device had been left inside a container.
我们认为有一个爆炸装置被留在了一只集装箱里。
- 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。
- 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。
- The device automatically disconnects the ignition when the engine is switched off
当引擎关掉时,这个装置会自动切断点火开关。
- The device can discriminate between the cancerous and the normal cells.
这台仪器可以辨别癌细胞和正常的细胞。
- The new device emits a powerful circular column of light.
新设备发出明亮的圆形光柱。
- Feminism is simply another device to ensnare women
女权主义只是使女性陷入圈套的另一种手段。
- The explosive device was timed to go off at the rush hour
爆炸装置被设定在高峰时间引爆。
- The camera has a built-in failsafe device which prevents it from working if the right signals aren't received.
照相机有内置自动防故障装置,该装置确保相机在未接到正确信号时不会启动。
- 'Would your car be easy to steal?' — 'Fat chance. I've got a device that shuts down the gas and ignition.'
“你的汽车容易被盗吗?”——“不太可能。有个装置,可关闭油门和点火开关。”
- The device automatically disconnects the ignition.
该装置使点火器自动断开。
- The device itself was right under the vehicle, almost in line with the gear lever
该装置本身就在车子正下方,几乎与变速杆处于同一直线上。
- This device has a gripper that electrically twists off the jar top. Nothing to it
这个装置有一个能拧开瓶盖的电动钳子,并不复杂。
- The device is fixed to a post.
这个装置被固定在杆子上。
- These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nations role.
这些论据或许是用来作为一种修辞手段来论证联合国将发挥长久的作用。
- Guests ran for safety as the device went off in a ground-floor men's toilet
一层男厕所里的炸弹爆炸后,客人们纷纷逃命而去。
- The built-in safety device compensates for a fall in water pressure.
该内置式安全装置在水压下降时能提供保护。
- This device screws into the shutter release button.
这个装置能旋进快门释放按钮。
- The device exploded, throwing Mr Taylor from his car.
那个装置爆炸了,把泰勒先生从车里抛了出去。
- The device is not designed to transmit to satellites.
该设备不是为向卫星发送信号而设计的。
- The device exploded underneath a van.
该装置在一辆货车底下发生了爆炸。
- Some clamps that had held the device together came undone.
用来将装置夹在一起的一些夹子松开了。
语源
Middle English: from Old French devis, based on Latin divis-divided, from the verb dividere. The original sense was desire or intention, found now only in leave a person to his or her own devices(which has become associated with sense 2)