英汉词典

invent 基本解释

• vt. 发明；创造；虚构

invent 词态变化

invent 中文词源

in-,进入，使，-vent,来，来到，词源同advent,venture.即来到，到达，引申词义找到，发现，后来进一步指发明，创造。

invent 英文词源

invent

invent: [15] Invent originally meant ‘find’ (‘Since that Eve was procreated out of Adam’s side, could not such newels [novelties] in this land be invented’, wrote the anonymous author of a 15th-century song). It was based on invent-, the past participial stem of Latin invenīre ‘come upon, find’, a compound verb formed from the prefix in- ‘on’ and venīre ‘come’.

The sense ‘devise’, which developed via ‘discover’, actually existed in the Latin verb, but English did not take it on board until the 16th century. The derivative inventory [16] was borrowed from medieval Latin inventōrium ‘list’, an alteration of late Latin inventārium, which originally meant a ‘finding out’, hence an ‘enumeration’.
=> adventure, inventory

invent (v.)

late 15c., "find, discover," a back-formation from invention or else from Latin inventus, past participle of invenire “to come upon; devise, discover” (see invention). Meaning "make up, think up" is from 1530s, as is that of "produce by original thought." Related: Invented; inventing.

invent 英文释义

1. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;

"excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

2. make up something artificial or untrue

invent 同义词解析

create, compose, design, invent, make, produce

这些动词均有"创造，制作"之意。

create： 侧重创造出来的东西以前并不存在，或者指独具特色的创作。

compose： 多指音乐或诗歌、画的创作。

design： 主要指在艺术或技术领域的创作设计，强调构思多于实际制造。

invent： 主要用于科技领域，指通过思考、研究或实验制造出新的前所未有、极为有用的东西。

make： 最普通用词，指任何东西的创作或制造。

produce： 指产品的生产，或作品创作的完成。

invent 双语例句

1. His father had helped invent a whole new way of doing business.

他父亲帮助创造了一套全新的生意经。

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2. We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.

我们必须想出新的办法使囚犯们偷偷溜出去而不被看守发现.

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3. I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse.

我站着不动，试图编个说得过去的借口。

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4. Soon designers began to invent new idioms expressly for the toolbar.

不久,设计者开始为工具栏发明新的习惯用法.

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5. He can always invent a new game to divert the children.

他总能想出新的游戏来供孩子们娱乐.

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invent 实用场景例句

Who invented the steam engine?

谁发明了蒸汽机？

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What excuse did he invent this time?

他这次编了什么借口？

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Many children invent an imaginary friend.

很多儿童都有一个假想朋友。

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He invented the first electric clock...

他发明了第一个电动机械钟。

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Writing had not been invented as yet.

书写体系当时还没有创造出来。

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I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse.

我站着不动,试图编个说得过去的借口。

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This kind of machine is invent in the 1970's.

这种机器是七十年代发明的.

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Efforts to invent new ways to bring together Chinese money and Hong Kong stocks continue.

有关方面仍在继续努力推出将大陆资金引入香港股市的措施.

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Feel free to invent a nickname for your Student if you like.

如果你喜欢,可以随意给你的学生起一个绰号.

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What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?

我们该发明什么赎罪的庆典, 什么神圣的把戏?

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Here, we have a short cut, where we don't have to invent new antibiotics.

在这里, 我们有一条捷径, 我们不需要发明抗生菌.

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Then I began to invent graphic stories without dialogue.

以后,我又想出画不带对话的图画故事.

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What explanation can we invent?

我们能想出(编造出)什么解释 呢 ?

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Like a lot of Web innovators, the Obama campaign did not invent anything completely new.

就像很多网络革新者一样, 奥巴马阵营没有发明任何全新的东西.

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Will people invent new types of transportation?

人们将会发明新型的交通工具 吗 ?

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They invent tools and machines to help them in their work.

他们发明机器来帮助自己工作.

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I invent the story about the man on my way home.

在回家的路上,我虚构了有关那个人的故事.

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He is a knowing fellow, and he will invent something to comfort her.

他是个老于世故的人, 会想出办法来安慰她的.

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The success of an economy depends on its ability to invent and embrace new protocols.

经济的成功依赖于其发明和采用新协议的能力.

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Do you know who invent magnetic needle?

你知道指南针是谁发明的 吗 ?

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Her lips so big, Chap Stick had to invent a spray.

她嘴唇这么大, 抹冻疮膏必须发明喷射装置.

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What had led Galois to invent this theory?

是什么导致伽罗瓦发明这条理论?

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He can always invent a new game to divert the children.

他总能想出新的游戏来供孩子们娱乐.

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Regulators may also have to invent new tools or revive ones that have fallen into disuse.

此外,监管机构还必须发明新的工具,或重新捡起那些弃用的工具.

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The government has to invent projects that will employ the least skilled.

政府不得不搞出一些再就业工程来雇用技能最差的劳工.

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I have a plan! Is must invent a new robot.

我有一个打算! 就是要发明一个新的机器人.

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Japan is the last country to invent radar, but England.

发明雷达的国家决不是日本, 而是英国.

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And the best way to predict the future is to invent it.

然而,预见未来的最好方法就是创造未来.

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