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

• A person who tells or invents fables.
  寓言的讲述者或创造者。
• 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。
• It walks, talks, thinks, and invents.
  它会走路、讲话、思考、和发明。
• His loom, by the way, is now manufactured in China, which makes a lot of things but invents very few.
  顺便说一下，他的彩虹织机目前在中国制造。中国可以制造很多东西，但发明的东西非常少。
• SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: You might be wondering how Mister Webre invents the many dances in the ballet.
  雪丽·葛里菲兹：你大概想知道韦布尔先生是如何创造芭蕾舞中的很多舞蹈动作的吧。
• 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。
• 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。
• With Barack Obama supportive, this means the America Invents Act could soon be signed into law.
  在奥巴马的支持下，美国专利发明保护法案即将签署通过，并入法律。
• Last year's immunization isn't any good for this year's disease because every time someone invents a new medication, someone else invents a new malady.
  去年对病毒所产生的免疫在今年起不到任何作用，因为每当人们在发明良药的同时，又有人制造出了新的病毒。
• To reduce the shock wave and save the explosive charge, the paper invents a new method of double vertical explosive welding by experiment.
  为了削减爆炸冲击波和节省装药量，该文通过试验发明了一种新的爆炸焊接方法&双立法。