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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。”
• 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；
• If you you will find that he names the reindeer, invents the sleigh, comes up with the chimney and the bag of toys, etc.
  如果你读过这首诗，你就会发现，是摩尔给驯鹿起的名字，是摩尔发明的雪橇，烟囱以及大包的玩具等等也都是摩尔的杜撰。
• It walks, talks, thinks, and invents.
  它会走路、讲话、思考、和发明。
• A scientist is a person who/ that invents or discovers things.
  发明或发现事物的人叫科学家。
• 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。
• Columbia Invents Fake Movie Critic
  哥伦比亚电影公司虚构假影评人