invention
英 [ɪnˈvenʃn]
美 [ɪnˈvenʃn]
n. 发明; 创意; 创造; 虚构; 编造; 虚构的故事
复数：inventions
Oxford 3000 / Collins.2 / BNC.4752 / COCA.4773
习惯用语
n.
- necessity is the mother of invention
- 需要是发明之母
a difficult new problem forces people to think of a solution to it
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 发明物;创造的事物
Aninventionis a machine, device, or system that has been invented by someone.- It's been a tricky business marketing his new invention...
推广他的新发明一直是件棘手的事情。 - The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
纺车是中国人的发明。
- It's been a tricky business marketing his new invention...
- N-UNCOUNT 发明;创造
Inventionis the act of inventing something that has never been made or used before.- More than eight million books were printed within fifty years after the invention of the printing press.
印刷机发明以后的 50 年间,有 800 多万册图书被印刷。 - ...the invention of the telephone.
电话的发明
- More than eight million books were printed within fifty years after the invention of the printing press.
- N-VAR 捏造;虚构
If you refer to someone's account of something as aninvention, you think that it is untrue and that they have made it up.- In these and several other respects, there are many inventions and exaggerations...
在这些方面和其他几个方面都存在许多捏造与夸张之处。 - The story was certainly a favourite one, but it was undoubtedly pure invention.
这个故事当然特别受欢迎,但它无疑纯属虚构。
- In these and several other respects, there are many inventions and exaggerations...
- N-UNCOUNT 发明才能;创造能力
Inventionis the ability to invent things or to have clever and original ideas.- ...his great powers of invention.
他出色的创造才能
- ...his great powers of invention.
英英释义
noun
- the act of inventing
- a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
- the creation of something in the mind
双语例句
- They demonstrated the new invention to us.
他们向我们演示了他们的新发明。 - He got a patent for this invention.
他获得了这项发明的专利权。 - The new invention ensures the beer keeps a full, frothy head.
这项新发明能保证啤酒始终保持丰富的泡沫。 - Necessity is the mother of invention.
需要乃发明之母。 - They attributed the success of their invention to Engineer Huang.
他们把发明的成功归于黄工程师。 - They credit the invention to her.
他们将这一发明归功于她。 - The fundamental problem lies in their inability to distinguish between reality and invention
最根本的问题在于他们无法分清现实和虚构。 - The story was certainly a favourite one, but it was undoubtedly pure invention.
这个故事当然特别受欢迎，但它无疑纯属虚构。 - The invention of all those machines by which labour is so much facilitated and abridged, seems to have been originally owing to the division of labor.
简化劳动和节省劳动的那些机械的发明，看来也是起因于分工。 - It's a most useful invention.
这是一项极其有用的发明。