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
• 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。
• I am just the guy that uses the software, not the guy who invents it.
  我只是使用这个软件的人，也不是我发明的这个软件。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。”
• Where a natural person invents a layout-design, the natural person is the inventor.
  由自然人创作的布图设计，该自然人是创作者。
• A person who tells or invents fables.
  寓言的讲述者或创造者。
• In the 2007 The Simpsons Movie, he invents a drill that can drill through anything, only to discover it is on the wrong side of the glass dome imprisoning the town.
  在2007年电影《辛普森一家》中，他发明了一个能够钻透任何东西的钻孔机，最后却发现钻到了监禁小镇玻璃顶的另一侧。
• 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。