invent
- vt.发明;创造;编造;虚构;捏造
过去式： invented 现在分词： inventing 过去分词： invented 第三人称单数： invents
in- 在内,进入,使 + vent 来
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VERB 发明;创造;首创
If you invent something such as a machine or process, you are the first person to think of it or make it.He invented the first electric clock...
他发明了第一个电动机械钟。
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VERB 编造;捏造;虚构
If you invent a story or excuse, you try to make other people believe that it is true when in fact it is not.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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Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder .
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
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Ben Franklin , one of America 's founding fathers , didn 't just invent the lightning rod .
美国开国元勋之一本杰明·富兰克林不仅仅发明了避雷针。
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He invented a new game , but it never really caught on .
他发明了一种新的游戏，但从未真正流行起来。
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The company is credited with inventing the industrial robot .
发明工业机器人是那家公司的功劳。
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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 is credited with inventing the first true helicopter .
他被认为是发明第一架真正的直升机的人。
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They invented some lamebrain scheme to get rich quick .
为发横财，他们想出了个蠢办法。
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Who invented the steam engine ?
谁发明了蒸汽机？
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Esperanto was invented as an auxiliary language .
世界语是作为辅助语发明的。
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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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Invented in 1951 , the rotary engine is a revolutionary concept in internal combustion
1951年发明的转缸式发动机是内燃机领域内的革命性概念。
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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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He invented the first electric clock
他发明了第一个电动机械钟。
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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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A new technological marvel was invented at Cambridge University in England , the scanning electron microscope .
一项科技新奇迹在英国剑桥大学诞生了——这就是扫描电子显微镜。
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He has invented innumerable excuses , told endless lies .
他编造了数不清的借口和谎话。
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He invented some story about a cousin .
他骗别人说自己有位堂兄。
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They hadn 't invented sequencers back in those days , had they ?
那时他们还没有发明出测序仪，是吧？
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He had invented an imaginary son , in order to make up for his real son 's failings .
为了弥补现实中儿子的不足之处，他就想象出了一个儿子。
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He is said to have invented the sport of celebrity-watching .
据说是他发明了观赏名人这项活动。
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I launched into the parable , embellishing the story with invented dialogue and extra details
我开始讲那则寓言，并编造了些对话，加了些细节对其进行润色。
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Before silos were invented , cows gave less milk during winter because they had no green grass to eat .
筒仓发明前，因为没有青草可以吃，奶牛在冬天产奶量减少。
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She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure
她幻想过着各种奇妙的生活，从想入非非中获得乐趣。
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Scurrilous and untrue stories were being invented .
有人正在捏造虚假诽谤的故事。
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He didn 't know when the telephone was invented .
他不知道电话是什么时候发明的。
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Edison had a remarkable aptitude for inventing new things .
爱迪生具有发明创造的非凡才能。
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Telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse in 1844 .
1844年塞缪尔·莫尔斯发明了电报。
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Printing was first invented by the Chinese .
印刷术是中国首先发明的。
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The astronomical clock , invented by the Chinese scientist Su Song over 800 years ago , was the first of its kind in the world . It gave the correct time of the day and night , as well as the sunrise and the sunset .
中国科学家苏颂800多年前发明的天文钟是世界上最早的天文钟。它能自动报告昼夜时刻和日出、日落等情况。
指通过研究、思考等制造出前所未有之物，多用于科技领域。
Who invented the printer?
谁发明了打印机？
He didn't know when the telephone was invented.
他不知道电话是什么时候发明的。
指创造出以前并不存在的新事物。
The government planned to create more than 200 new jobs.
政府计划创造二百多个新的就业机会。
He created a new kind of game.
他发明了一种新游戏。
指想出做某事的新方法。
He devised a method to ease the traffic jams in the city.
他发明出一种缓解该市交通拥堵的方法。