invents

英 [ɪnˈvents]

美 [ɪnˈvents]

v.  发明; 创造; 编造; 捏造; 虚构
invent的第三人称单数

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.
  1. He invented the first electric clock...
     他发明了第一个电动机械钟。
  2. Writing had not been invented as yet.
     书写体系当时还没有创造出来。
• 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.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• Columbia Invents Fake Movie Critic
  哥伦比亚电影公司虚构假影评人
• 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。
• He quotes Rousseau: "The legislator is the mechanic who invents the machine."
  他援引卢梭的话：“立法者是发明机器的机械师。”
• These are machines that invents recently.
  这些是新近发明的机器。
• Nor do we approve of it if someone invents for himself a meaning which conflicts with all antiquity, and for which there are clearly no testimonies of the church.
  我们也不赞同此事，即有人自以为发明了一种意义，而此意义是与过去所有古老教义相矛盾的，而且显然过去的教会也没有如此的见证。
• Now imagine that some female in this species invents a useful skill-for instance, how to open a nut to extract its nutritious meat.
  再想像某位女性发明了一个有用的技术，例如打开坚果好取出营养果肉的法门。
• If you get simple beauty and nothing else, you get about the things God invents. ( UK) Robert Browning.
  只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好的东西。（英国）罗伯特。布朗宁。
• It walks, talks, thinks, and invents.
  它会走路、讲话、思考、和发明。
• Many large companies in various industries and major universities have welcomed the America Invents Act.
  各个行业的许多大公司和各大高校对《美国发明法》表示欢迎。
• US invents new software which could help trace back lost computers;
  美国发明新“软件”，可找回失窃电脑；