Scientists have devised methods to trap vapor in bottles so they can study its makeup.

科学家用各种方法将蒸汽收集别瓶子里，以便研究它的成分。

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They have devised ingenious methods to harvest, transport, and store rainwater, spring water, groundwater, and even air moisture.

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Or were his victories more or less predetermined (as his own officer Cleitus grumbled) by the innovations and training methods devised by his father, Philip?

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Human brains (1.4kg and 100 billion neurons) will come later, when all the wrinkles have been ironed out in rodents, and proper methods devised to analyse the results.

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