| 词汇 | inventing |
| 释义 | inventing present participle ofinvent 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 designer devise dream something up ergonomic ergonomically mother nanotechnology non-imitative operational research the mother of somethingidiom themed think outside the boxidiom think something up trailblaze uninventive 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 mythologically mythologize perjure perjury someone can talk!idiom washing weasel words white lie whopper Examples of inventinginventing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Inventing images: constructing and contesting gender in thinking about electroacoustic music. In reply, we can account for cloning being unethical in such a case without inventing a new concept of harm. For inventing psychiatric registers has since 1800 entailed - baptizing and using new membership categories. Throughout this entire narrative there is an irresolvable undecidability, as it becomes impossible to tell fact from fiction, recounting from inventing. There was also evidence to suggest that teachers' own experience of composing affected the ways in which they taught inventing. This ' haggis defence ' failed, since spreading false scurrilous reports was as defamatory as inventing them. By building theories and inventing concepts, we sophisticate the subjective image of the world rather than get a grasp of the material reality behind it. This reduces motivation to a technological problem of simply inventing a device that will be acceptable. To achieve this end, they sometimes resorted to reviving bygone tribal identities or inventing new ones altogether. The vertebrate brain in effect makes up for what is missing in the visual field by ' inventing ' an image. Music editors and directors, inventing and defining the soundscape, operate in broad, intuitive, musical strokes in referencing filmic demands. Neither way are pupils being helped to get better at inventing their own music. However, inventing tradition was also useful to business. This instruction density can be further increased by inventing new instructions to replace common sequences. He suggested that the intention to borrow, like that of inventing ritual, is self-defeating. 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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