inventing

英 [ɪnˈventɪŋ]

美 [ɪnˈventɪŋ]

v.  发明; 创造; 编造; 捏造; 虚构
invent的现在分词

COCA.42909

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

• Inventing a father she never had.
  创造出一个她从来没有过的爸爸。
• Too many folks I talk to end up inventing their own approach to persistence.
  我接触过的许多人都没有创造自己的持久性方法。
• Known for his swiftness and athleticism, Hermes was given credit for inventing foot-racing and boxing.
  赫密士以速度和运动闻名，他又发明了竞走鞋和拳击。
• By inventing the telephone, he opened the age of telecommunications and shrank the world.
  发明了电话，他开的年龄缩水电信和世界。
• He was soon hard at work making improve-ments in the machine and inventing new parts.
  他不久就努力从事改进机器和发明新部件的工作。
• With the inventing of the computer, society seems to have changed greatly.
  随著电脑的发明，社会似乎已经大大地改变了。
• In 1943 Jacques Cousteau and his friend made it possible by inventing the scuba machine.
  1943年，雅克·库斯托和他的朋友发明了水下呼吸器，才使潜水成为可能。
• Whenever you find yourself inventing a complex algorithm you are probably on the wrong track.
  无论何时，你发现自己发明了一个复杂的算法，你很可能走在了错误的轨道上。
• This is the spirit of inventing and creating.
  这是有发明创造精神。
• Children with imaginary friends have a lot of practice at inventing interactions between their imaginary friends and themselves.
  基德博士指出：「儿童有了幻想的朋友，在自己与朋友虚构的互动过程中，增加了很多练习的机会。