Twenty feet -- that's six meters. Other suggestions include putting more distance between you and the device and using good lighting.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

Language of this source is a device, and in relation to other devices it's called a "function."

语言是一种工具，和其他工具一样有功能“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What other people call content is a device like any other, and it engages in the struggle for dominance with all the other devices that one can identify as aspects of literature."

别人所说的内容只是另一种方法而已，它为了争夺支配地位历经斗争,胜利的那些才能被称为文学性“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.03.01

So we have to come up--we mortals-- have to come up with some other device, and our device to remember things is to try to write it down because my premise here is, if you can write music down clearly you are hearing it, clearly, and you would have a better chance of remembering it if you could write it down.

因此我们普通人,必须开发出,不得不开发出一些其它的方法,而我们用来记忆的方法,就是试着写下来,它的前提是,如果你可以将听到的音乐清楚地写下来,很清楚,那么你就更有可能,记住它,前提是你能写下它

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Electromagnetic waves or energy passed through the air from one device to the other.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

I stressed in the third lecture that like any--insurance, like any other risk management device, is an invention.

在第三次课上我已经强调过了,保险和其它风险管理工具一样,是一种发明

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Judge Melvin Wright explains how the D.C.Superior Court handles this issue: "We instruct jurors that they cannot during the course of a trial use Google or Twitter or any other electronic device to obtain information.

VOA: special.2009.08.31