Some drug makers and other companies put three-dimensional images called holograms on their products as a security device.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

In a certain poet, the image, the image patterns, can certainly be recognized as the dominant device.

对于特定的一个诗人，图像，或图像的组合，当然可以是占支配地位的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Plato wrote the dialogues as a kind of learning device, as a tool to help the reader get better at doing philosophy.

柏拉图写下这些对话录,是为了将其作为一种助学方法,作为一种帮助读者,更好的掌握哲学的工具

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As Arick grew older, the doctor replaced his nebulizer with a small medical device called an inhaler.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

But it's not, you're right, it's not as full and powerful device as comedy and humor're in Hitchcock It's a great deal of humor.

喜剧因素,但是，没错，和希区柯克影片的喜剧和幽默比,这些不够饱满和有力度。

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"The average person who uses a computer or an electronic device blinks about a third as much as we normally do in everyday life.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

So in formalist terms, that's the way we have to understand what, if we weren't formalists, we would suppose, as I say, to be a mnemotechnical device for the purpose of communicating something about the weather in Spain. Right?

形式主义者会这样理解，但如果我们不是形式主义者，我们就会认为这个重复单纯是为了,记住西班牙的天气，对吗？

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"I know some people will regard that as peculiar for a digital device but it is, it's more like an album launch or a film premiere because the device is not just something for nerds, it has a cultural meaning too."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Now Susan Mayne, who is a Professor here in the School of Public Health, has done some very interesting work with an electronic device that can be passed over the palm of your hand and measures pigmentation in the hand as a way to assess vegetable intake in people.

苏珊·梅恩,我们公共卫生学院的教授,做了些值得关注的工作,通过电子设备,扫描你的手掌,测算其上色素沉淀,可以得出人们蔬菜的摄入量

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Dr.Leslie Miller at Washington Hospital Center is involved in clinical trials of heart pumps, including this one that the U.S.Food and Drug Administration has approved as a device that can permanently replace the heart for patients who are too old to be considered for a heart transplant.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

Before 1986, the tax law allowed use of DPPs as a tax loss device.

在1986年之前,税法允许DPP作为一种避税工具

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