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。

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We are fearful, and so we devise ways to lock the fear out, and that, we decide, is what security means.

我们担心，因此，我们想方设法来锁定恐惧，而这一点，我们决定，是什么安全手段。

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We are fearful, and so, we devise ways to lock the fear out, and that, we decide, is what security means.

我们恐惧，因此我们想出办法把恐惧档在外面，而我们认为，这就是安全。

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So, that means we have to devise ways of sharing with people that we've never met, that we don't care about--I mean, maybe we care about everybody, but we don't have any particular emotional ties to them-- and they're very different people.

那意味着我们必须设计一些方法,使我们与素未谋面的，并不亲近的人们一同分摊风险，也许我们非常博爱，但未必对所有人都会怀有特殊情感-,分摊者应该是与我们非常不同的人。

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The point was that months were henceforward spent by me trying to devise ways to catch the drum rotating.

NEWYORKER: All That

Doctors are also working to devise ways to smuggle drugs into the brain.

ECONOMIST: Breaching the body's defences

But skilled people will continue to leave, and poor countries therefore need to devise ways to draw on their experience abroad.

ECONOMIST: Emigration