- 1設計、想出、策劃（方法或計畫，不是「裝置」）
To devise something is to plan it, or to invent a new way of doing it. You devise a plan, a method, a system, a trick. It is a careful, rather formal verb: more “think it up and work it out” than “have a sudden idea.” Scientists devise experiments; a school might devise a new ; a clever person devises a way around a problem. Though actually there is also an old legal noun, a devise: property left to someone in a will. Students almost always meet the verb, not that noun. The verb is a cousin of divide — you split a problem apart in your mind until a new way appears.
From the word’s history
From Old French deviser, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō 'divide'.
源自古法文 deviser，來自拉丁文 dīvidō「分開」，引申為安排、設計。
組成From Old French deviser, from Latin dīvidō, “to divide.” The rarer noun comes from French devise and is a close twin of device.
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deviseverb詞源 1/dɪˈvaɪz/
- 1
To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
- Near-synonyms: lay, set, design, plan, create
- to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing
- 2
To leave (property) in a will.
- 3
archaicTo form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
- I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer.
- 4
archaicTo plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
- For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore / They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize,
- 5
obsoleteTo imagine; to guess.
- I do protest I neuer iniur’d thee, But lou’d thee better then thou can’st deuise: Till thou shalt know the reason of my loue.
devisenoun詞源 2/dɪˈvaɪz/
- 1
The act of leaving real property in a will.
- 2
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
- Fines upon devises were still exacted.
- 3
The real property left in such a will.
- 4
Design, devising.
- I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]
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