invent
英 [ɪnˈvent]
美 [ɪnˈvent]
v. 发明; 创造; 编造; 捏造; 虚构
过去分词：invented 过去式：invented 现在分词：inventing 第三人称单数：invents
Oxford 3000 / Collins.2 / BNC.3639 / COCA.3398
同义词辨析
inventv. 发明，创造
〔辨析〕
指通过研究、思考等制造出前所未有之物，多用于科技领域。
〔例证〕
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。
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。
createv. 创造，创建
〔辨析〕
指创造出以前并不存在的新事物。
〔例证〕
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。
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。
devisev. 设计，发明
〔辨析〕
指想出做某事的新方法。
〔例证〕
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。
他发明出一种缓解该市交通拥堵的方法。
牛津词典
verb
- 发明；创造
to produce or design sth that has not existed before- Who invented the steam engine?
谁发明了蒸汽机？
- Who invented the steam engine?
- 编造；捏造；虚构
to say or describe sth that is not true, especially in order to trick people- What excuse did he invent this time?
他这次编了什么借口？ - Many children invent an imaginary friend.
很多儿童都有一个假想朋友。
- What excuse did he invent this time?
柯林斯词典
- VERB 发明;创造;首创
If youinventsomething 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。 - Writing had not been invented as yet.
书写体系当时还没有创造出来。
- He invented the first electric clock...
- VERB 编造;捏造;虚构
If youinventa 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。
- I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse.
英英释义
verb
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
- make up something artificial or untrue
双语例句
- How they invent it be not clear to me.
他们如何发明的它我不清楚。 - They had to invent new methods and techniques.
他们为此发明新的技术与方法。 - I would invent the question of universals?
是我发明了关于普遍原则的疑问？ - And so, maybe somebody in this room working with me will invent such a process.
因此，也许这个房间里和我一起工作的某个人，会发明出这样一种制作方法。 - 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。 - Artists invent tools, imagine new representations of the universe, and create the languages of tomorrow.
艺术家们发明了新的工具，想象出了宇宙新的表现力，并且创造了未来的语言。 - We have become so technologically brilliant surely we will invent a solution; find a way around our problems.
我们已经变得如此辉煌的技术，我们一定会发明一种解决方案，我们找到一个解决问题的方法。 - And I was about to invent a machine.
我正准备发明个机器。 - Thomas Edison: To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
汤马斯爱迪生：关于发明，你只需要好的想象力和一堆废物。 - I invent the story about the man on my way home.
我捏造了关于一个男人在回家路上的故事。