| 词汇 | invent |
| 释义 | invent verb[ T ] uk /ɪnˈvent/ us /ɪnˈvent/ inventverb[T] (NEW DESIGN)B1 to design and/or create something that has never been made before: 发明，创造 The first safety razor was invented by company founder King C. Gillette in 1903.第一把安全剃刀由公司创始人金‧坎普‧吉列于1903年发明。 to make something makeCan I make you a cup of coffee? produceCalifornia produces a lot of grapes. createLeonardo da Vinci created the masterpiece we know as "Mona Lisa". inventAlexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing the telephone. developThey are working to develop the next generation of underwater vehicles. manufactureThe car is manufactured in Germany. I wish someone would invent an everlasting light bulb.我希望能有人发明一种永远不会烧坏的灯泡。 Pneumatic tyres were invented in 1888 by John Dunlop. Gas lamps became obsolete when electric lighting was invented.电灯发明以后煤气灯就被淘汰了。 He has invented a wholly factitious story about his past. She tried to save face by inventing a story about being overseas at the time.为了尽量挽回面子，她谎称那时在海外。 Inventing, designing and innovation absorptive capacity architect artificer bionics blueprint design designer devise dream something up ergonomic modularization mother nanotechnology non-imitative technologist technology the mother of somethingidiom themed think outside the boxidiom think something up inventverb[T] (NOT TRUE)B2 to create a reason, excuse, story, etc. that is not true, usually to deceive someone: 捏造，编造，虚构 But I didn't invent the story - everything I told you is true.但我没有胡编——我告诉你的都是真的。 to say something not true in order to deceive lieAll she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says. tell a lieI cannot tell a lie: I chopped down the cherry tree. lie through your teethHe lied through his teeth that he didn't go to the cinema, though he was still holding the ticket stub in his hand as he said it. fibI don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful. misleadI'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married. deludeHe's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion. Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom artifice bad faith black is whiteidiom cakeism falsehood falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction lie mythologize perjure perjury polygraph someone can talk!idiom stretch the truthidiom weasel words white lie whopper invent | American Dictionaryinvent verb[ T ] us/ɪnˈvent/ to design or create something that did not exist before: Gutenberg invented movable type in the 15th century. To invent is also to create a story or explanation which is not true: I don’t know what I really saw and what I’ve invented. invent | Business Englishinvent verb[ T ] uk /ɪnˈvent/us to design or create something which has never been made or has never existed before: One of the surest ways to make money in the stock market is to find a company that invents a new drug. The World Wide Web was invented in 1989. to create a reason, excuse, etc. which is not true in order to deceive someone: Managers often invent an explanation for their actions. See alsonot-invented-here syndrome Examples of inventinvent The extraordinary stories that he invents or that he reports when he describes cities and regions are part of this tendency to exaggerate. The human mind, straining to interpret elusive detail at the limit of perception, invented narrow linear features that are simply not there. Due to the negative connotation of this word, they invented a category of umukene nyakujya (very poor). 29. The recent scaling down of mobile device form factors has made this problem more general, and various rules have been invented. Many different algorithms have been invented to simulate the late reverberation efficiently. All the things that others invented before ... our revival ... do not need to be reinvented. Effect of phoneme awareness instruction on kindergarten children's invented spelling. Throughout this entire narrative there is an irresolvable undecidability, as it becomes impossible to tell fact from fiction, recounting from inventing. Both cantautore and canzone d'autore were terms invented and used in order to elaborate such a language. The reason that non-monotonic logics were invented was, of course, in order to use logic to reason about the world. In other words, it is not plausible that these individuals should have invented so similar stories at different times and places. Is this to be viewed as purely invented by colonial courts and imposed upon an otherwise integrated family? As each one of them has failed, still newer rationality has been invented to continue the deployment. There was also evidence to suggest that teachers' own experience of composing affected the ways in which they taught inventing. The perspective, invented in the fifteenth century, makes possible the representation of the world as a landscape. See all examples of invent These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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