device是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 装置， 设备， 仪表； 方法， 设计，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By an ingenious device he sets before the rescuers a search which compels their circumnavigation of the globe around a certain parallel of the southern hemisphere.
-- My device is ‘Spiro spero,' and it is the best motto in the world!"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His only accomplice was one who could never give him away, and the grotesque, inconceivable nature of the device only served to make it more effective.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, the rooms, though a beautiful scene to look at, and adorned with every device of decoration that the taste and skill of the time could achieve, were, in truth, not a sound business; considered with any reference to the scarecrows in the rags and nightcaps elsewhere (and not so far off, ei-ther, but that the watching towers of Notre Dame, almost equidistant from the two extremes, could see them both), they would have been an exceedingly uncomfortable busi-148 A tale of two citiesness if that could have been anybody's business, at the house of Monseigneur.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was, however, easy to be seen, by the occasional gleams that shot across his swarthy visage, that it was only necessary to arouse his passions, in order to give full effect to the terrific device which he had adopted to -intimidate his enemies.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What would be the worth of having all the world if he could not show it to her, if she was not there-- He denounced Nature for her way of tricking human beings, by every gay device of moonlight and white limbs and reaching loneliness, into having babies, then making birth as cruel and clumsy and wasteful as she could.
-- He had to work out his own device for growing anaerobic cultures, but he had been trained by the Gottlieb who remarked, "Any man dat iss unable to build a filter out of toot'-picks, if he has to, would maybe better buy his results along with his fine equipment."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the noose, it was a very ingenious device of his own; the noose was intended for the axe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rumbling along with most unwonted noise, the caravan stopped at last at the place of exhibition, where Nell dismounted amidst an admiring group of children, who evidently supposed her to be an important item of the curiosities, and were fully impressed with the belief that her grandfather was a cunning device in wax.
-- 'Two keys,' repeated the Notary; 'one of which gave her the opportunities of roaming through the house at nights when you supposed her fast locked up, and of overhearing confidential consultations among others, that particular conference, to be described to-day before a justice, which you will have an opportunity of hearing her relate; that conference which you and Mr Brass held together, on the night before that most unfortunate and innocent young man was accused of robbery, by a horrible device of which I will only say that it may be characterised by the epithets which you have applied to this wretched little witness, and by a few stronger ones besides.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cabinet was a high room, profusely ornamented, and containing every imaginable device of comfort and necessity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This device I executed successfully.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In another apartment I was highly pleased with a projec-tor who had found a device of ploughing the ground with hogs, to save the charges of ploughs, cattle, and labour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Banks, I know, are always suspicious, and officially must be,' said the stranger, whose lightness and smoothness of speech were pleasant likewise; suggesting matter far more sensible and humorous than it ever contained which was perhaps a shrewd device of the founder of this numerous sect, whosoever may have been that great man: 'therefore I may observe that my letter here it is is from the member for this place Gradgrind whom I have had the pleasure of knowing in London.'
-- 'This is a device to keep him out of the way,' said Mrs. Sparsit, starting from the dull office window whence she had watched him last.
-- The appointment was a device to keep the brother away!There they were yonder, by the felled tree.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though universally denominated a dolphin, I nevertheless call this book-binder's fish an attempt at a whale; because it was so intended when the device was first introduced.
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