In devising a way to assess hope scientifically, Doctor Snyder went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
VERB
設計;發明;策劃;想出
If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
例句
We devised a scheme to help him...我們想出了一個幫他的計策。New long-range objectives must be devised.必須規劃出新的長期目標。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. the act that results in something coming to be;
"the devising of plans""the fashioning of pots and pans""the making of measurements""it was already in the making"