device

英[dɪˈvaɪs]美[dɪˈvaɪs]

n.装置，器具，爆炸装置，策略，技巧，诡计，（文学作品中）修辞手段；

复数：devices;

例句

The device will save much time and effort for us.这种装置会使我们节省大量时间和气力。

a pulsating device颤动的装置

We feel safe with a protective device in the house.我们因为家里有了防护装置而感到安全。

They have primed the explosive device.他们已使爆炸装置准备起爆。

The portable device easily knocks down.这种轻便装置容易拆卸。

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。

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。

Her illness is merely a device to avoid seeing him.她所谓生病只不过是避免见他的花招而已。

A computer is a device for processing information.电脑是用来处理信息的。

英语六级真题

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.

The market demand for electronic devices is now either declining or not growing as fast as before.

The Consumer Electronics Show in recent years has begun to focus more on the practical value than the showiness of electronic devices.

That could be another explanation for why companies seem to be strengthening their talk of the practicality of their devices.

Meanwhile, emerging technologies – the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world – now seem a bit too old to be called the next big thing.

It is still easy to be dazzled by the display of drones ( ' , 无人机 ), 3D printers, virtual reality goggles ( ' , 眼镜 ) and more smart devices than you could ever hope to catalog.

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

Flexibility resulting from the use of digital devices benefits employers instead of employees.

Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

Consumers are often hesitant to try smart-home devices because they are worried about compatibility problems.

But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

A full 18 percent have even returned devices until they feel they can get safer guarantees against having their sensitive information hacked.

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls and windows.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

Professor Summers said of the iPhone, after the device and its capabilities were explained to him.

The always-on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities, like tracking where students gather together.

Students already have laptops and cell phones, of course, but the newest devices can take class distractions to a new level

She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices.

Providing powerful hand-held devices is sure to fuel debates over the role of technology in higher education

Abilene Christian settled on the devices after surveying students and finding that they did not like hauling around their laptops, but that most of them always carried a cell phone, Dr. Dickson said.

At least four institutions - the University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christian University, Abilene Christian and Freed-Hardeman- have announced that they will give the devices to some or all of their students this fall

the wireless carrier offering the iPhone in the United States, had a more reliable network, said Andrew Yu, mobile devices platform project manager at M.I.T.

Both the iPhones and the iPod Touch devices can connect to the Internet through campus wireless networks

My colleagues and I are studying something called augmented reality (a field of computer research dealing with the combination of real-world and virtual reality)," said Christopher Dede, professor in learning technologies at Harvard University, "Alien Contact," for example, is an exercise developed for middle-school students who use hand-held devices that can determine their location.

The rush to distribute the devices worries some professors, who say that students are less likely to participate in class if they are multi-tasking

find new applications for iPod Touch devices

have difficulty learning to handle the devices

What's more, grades are not only an educational device but are also part of a screening system to help assign kids to their next class or program.

The platform is lowered into the garage, and it is then transported to a vacant parking space by a computer-controlled device similar to an elevator that also runs sideways.

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

But the next question is, are the drops in average well-being happening at the same time as trends toward increased electronic device usage?

If Apple alters the security model of future iPhones so that even its own engineers' "reasonable assistance" will not be able to crack a given device when compelled by the government, a precedent set in this case might lose its lasting force.

It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.

On Jan 9, 2007, Steve Jobs formally announced Apple's "revolutionary mobile phone"—a device that combined the functionality of an iPod, phone and Internet communication into a single unit, navigated by touch.

One 2013 study of college students found that 80% of students use their phones or laptops during class, with the average student checking their digital device 11 times in a typical class.

The video reports a new study using an eye-tracking device.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

装置;设备;器具;仪器

A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.

例句

N-COUNT

手段;策略;方法;技巧

A device is a method of achieving something.

例句

PHRASE

听任…自便;让…自行发展;不去管

If you leave someone to their own devices, you leave them alone to do as they wish.

例句

英汉词典释义

n.

装置, 设备, 器具

手段, 策略

炸弹；爆炸性武器；爆炸装置

花招；计谋；诡计

器械，仪器；机件；发明物；(尤指作特定用途的)机械装置，电气装置

(为实现某种目的的)计划；谋略；骗*

(绣制品等上的)装饰性图案(或图形、样式)

纹章(或徽章)图案；商标图案；(作标记的)图形，图样

【计算机】(具有专门功能的)硬件设备

(文学、艺术等的)手法，(达到艺术效果的)手段，技巧

英英词典释义

Noun

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);

行业词典

体育： 装置；设备；器件；

医学： 装置，器：为特殊目的而设计的某物；

物理学： 器件；