1·Add individual tortures to national degradations, and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the veil, — those two winding-sheets of human devising.
除了民族的堕落以外，还得加上个人所受的苦难，无论你是谁，你在僧衣和面纱？人类发明的两种装殓死人的服饰？
2·Psychologists at Radford University came to the conclusions after devising a formula for calculating the probabilities of marital success based on a spouse's career.
这个结论是瑞德福大学的心理学家得出的。他们发明了一个公式，用来计算受夫妻职业类型影响的婚姻成功机率。
3·The Renaissance genius spent years deciphering the flight of birds and devising personal flying machines.
这位文艺复兴时代的天才，长年累月地研究破解鸟类飞行的秘密，努力钻研发明个人飞行器。
4·Devising a fuel tank to constrain hydrogen has always been a challenge.
发明一种燃料箱来限制氢气总是一项大挑战。
5·In a letter to the Duke he describes all the things he can do in the way of engineering, designing mechanical DE vices and weapons and playing music on instruments of his own devising.
在给公爵的一封信中，他描述厂自己所能做的一切事情：工程、设计机械装置和武器以及用自己发明的乐器演奏音乐。