中英互译
devise
英 /dɪˈvaɪz/美 /dɪˈvaɪz/
基本释义
- v.设计,发明;<法律>(通过遗嘱)遗赠(不动产);<古>图谋
- n.<法律>(遗嘱中)遗赠不动产的条款
- 人名 (Devise)(美、法)德维兹(人名)
复数devises
第三人称单数devises
现在分词devising
过去式devised
过去分词devised
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词语例句
设计,发明vt.
六级四级We devised a scheme to help him.
我们想出了一个计划来帮助他。
Defense Minister Farhat Horchani said last week that German and American security experts were expected to come to help Tunisia devise a new electronic video supervision system on its border with Libya.
突尼斯国防部长法哈特·霍查尼(Farhat Horchani)上周表示,德国和美国的安全专家预计将协助突尼斯,在其与利比亚的边境上设计一个新的电子视频监控系统。
They were both Ph.D. candidates when they devised the search engine which was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother.
他们在申请读博时就设计出了这款搜索引擎;它在性能上击败了当时其他所有的同类,因此无需任何广告宣传,仅仅通过最先试用的用户的口口相传就广泛应用开来,甚至最后连祖母辈也开始使用。
<法律>(通过遗嘱)遗赠(不动产)vi.
He devised his estate to his cousin.
他把自己的财产遗赠给了表弟。
- Experts are trying to devise ways to clean up the huge slick.专家们在努力想出清除大面积浮油的办法。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- You are supposed to devise strategies to alter the cues and routines.你应该设计一些策略来改变球杆和动作。
- Your assignment will be to choose a discipline that interests you, and devise an experiment.你们的任务是选择一个感兴趣的学科,然后设计一个实验。
网络短语
- succession by devise遗赠继承
- point-devise完全或精确地
- devise e设计;发明;策划;想出
- devise a proposal设计一份提案
- heir by devise遗嘱赠与继承人
词语扩展
词义分布
设计
76.4%
想出
12%
发明
9.4%
图谋
2.1%
英英释义
- n.a will disposing of real property
- n.(law) a gift of real property by will
- v.come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- v.arrange by systematic planning and united effort
- v.give by will, especially real property
- v.to invent a plan
策划;设计;想出- We devised a plan to help him.我们想出了一个帮他的方案。
词源
- devise发明,设计来自拉丁语dividere,词源同divide。即分开,展开,后词义引申为发明,设计。
- devise设计,发明,想出来源于通俗拉丁语动词divisare(分),在进入英语之前,“分”的意义已转化为“策划,设计”,是由于“分发”之前总是需要“策划”的。 词根词缀: devis(-divis-)分 + -e