invent
英 [ɪnˈvent] 美 [ɪnˈvɛnt]

vt.

发明，创造；虚构；

变形

过去式：invented过去分词：invented现在分词：inventing第三人称单数：invents

双语释义

v.(动词)

1. vt. 发明; 创造 make up, think of, or produce for the first time
2. vt. 编造 make up (sth unreal or untrue)

英英释义

invent[ in'vent ]

• v.
  • come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

    同义词：contrivedeviseexcogitateformulateforge

  • make up something artificial or untrue

    同义词：fabricatemanufacturecook upmake up

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)～+名词

• invent the combine harvester发明联合收割机
• invent an excuse找借口
• invent an explanation捏造一种说法
• invent a false story虚构故事
• invent a new game发明一种新游戏
• invent a new method发明了新的方法

～+副词

• invent smartly虚构得很妙

同近义词辨析

invent, compose, make, create, design, produce

这组词都有“创造”的意思，其区别是：

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。

compose多指音乐或诗歌、画的创作。

make最普通用词，指任何东西的创作或制造。

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。

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。

produce指产品的生产，或作品创作的完成。

invent, discover

invent 发明，创造。如：A kind of toothbrush has been invented to relieve toothache.

discover 发现。如：A coal mine has been discovered in that area.

invent, discover, find out

invent发明本来不存在的物体,

discover发现本来存在但不为人所知的东西,

find out 发现,查明 At last he found out the truth.

双语例句

用作及物动词(vt.)

1. Can you tell me who invented the telephone?
   你能告诉我是谁发明了电话？
2. He always strives to invent something new.
   他一直努力要发明新东西。
3. The fact was that China was the first country to invent paper.
   事实是中国是发明纸的第一个国家。
4. We must invent an excuse for our absence.
   我们必须为缺席编造一个藉口。
5. 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。
6. Don't invent an excuse.
   不要捏造借口。

权威例句

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To Understand is To Invent
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The Brunn-Minkowski inequality in Gauss space. Invent. Math. 30 207-216
New concentration inequalities in product spaces, Invent. Math. 126, 505-563
Undecidability and non periodicity of tilings of the plane. Invent Math
Tian, G.: On Calabi’s conjecture for complex surfaces with positive first Chern class. Invent. Math. 101(1), 101-172
Milman P.: Canonical desingularization in characteristic zero by blowing up the maximum strata of a local invariant. Invent. Math. 1...