device的经典引文是什么

1. 手段，方法
2. 诡计；策略；谋略；花招；计划
3. 装置；设备；器具；器械
4. 纹章；图案；图样；花样
5. 设计
6. 意志；欲望
7. 标记
8. 商标

1. an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose;

   "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"
   "a device intended to conserve water"
   

2. something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
3. any clever maneuver;

   "he would stoop to any device to win a point"
   "it was a great sales gimmick"
   "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen"
   

4. any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
5. an emblematic design (especially in heraldry);

   "he was recognized by the device on his shield"
   

1.装置;设备;器具;仪器
Adevice is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.

e.g. ...an electronicdevice that protects your vehicle 24 hours a day.
24小时保护车辆的电子装置
e.g. ...adevice that could measure minute quantities of matter...
能够测量微量物质的设备

2.手段;策略;方法;技巧
Adevice is a method of achieving something.

e.g. They claim that military spending is used as adevice for managing the economy.
他们声称军费开支是用来作为经济的手段的。
e.g. ...the literarydevice of the metaphor.
隐喻的文学手法

3.听任…自便;让…自行发展;不去管
If youleave someoneto theirown devices, you leave them alone to do as they wish.

e.g. Left to his owndevices, 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。

leave sb to one's own devices

听任某人自行其是 leave sb alone, without help

• Aggression is the device I have for surviving the pain of Roger's presence.

  出自：B. Trapido

• As for coincidences in bookssthere's something cheap and sentimental about the device.

  出自：J. Barnes

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的devis，意为分开，分离，气质，希望；最初源自古典拉丁语的divisus，意为划分。