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

• 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。
• 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。
• Thomas Edison invents multiplex telegraphy.
  托马斯.爱迪生发明多路复用电报。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Nicola Tesla invents alternating current.
  尼古拉特斯拉发明了交流电。
• 1827-John Walker ( inventor), an English chemist, invents the friction match.
  1827年的今天，英国化学家约翰·沃克尔（发明家）发明了火柴。
• A scientist is a person who/ that invents or discovers things.
  发明或发现事物的人叫科学家。