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

• 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。
• 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。
• You know that invents from the bartender the coffee of Ireland, go to the girl order the coffee of Ireland, passes by how long?
  你知道从酒保发明爱尔兰咖啡，到女孩点爱尔兰咖啡，经过了多久？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A person who tells or invents fables.
  寓言的讲述者或创造者。
• 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。”
• 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。