invention

单词音标

invention音标[in\'venʃәn]

汉语翻译

n. 发明, 创作能力, 虚构的故事

【经】 发明

词型变化

形容词:inventional

英语解释

名词 invention:

the creation of something in the mind

同义词：innovation, excogitation, conception, design

a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

同义词：innovation

the act of inventing

例句

The invention of modern xerography has made our work much easier.

现代复印术的发明让我们的工作轻松多了。

The invention of aircraft caused a revolution in our ways of travelling.

飞机的发明引起了旅行方式的巨大改变。

The invention of the computer marked the beginning of a new era.

计算机的发明标志着一个新时代的开始。

Your invention is not practical.

你的发明不实用。

Mass literacy was only possible after the invention of printing.

发明了印刷术后文化教育才得以普及。

He got a patent for this invention.

他获得了这项发明的专利权。

Necessity is the mother of invention.

需要是发明之母。

详细解释

in.ven.tion

n.Abbr. inv.（名词）缩写 inv.

The act or process of inventing:

发明：发明的动作或过程：

例句：

used a technique of her own invention.

用她自己发明的技术

A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation:

发明物：从研究以及实验中发展而来的新的仪器、方法或过程：

例句：

the phonograph, an invention attributed to Thomas Edison.

留声机是托马斯·爱迪生的发明物

A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.

捏造：内心捏造的东西，特指谎言

Skill in inventing; inventiveness:

发明才能：在发明方面的技巧；创造性：

例句：

.the invention and sweep of the staging.(John Simon)

.舞台演出的创新和大改革.(约翰·西蒙)

Music A short composition developing a single theme contrapuntally.

【音乐】 创意曲：按对位法规则表现一个单一主题的短小乐章

A discovery; a finding.

发现，找到

来源：

Middle English invencioun [scheme, plan]

中古英语 invencioun [规划，计划]

from Old French invencion [a finding out]

源自 古法语 invencion [找出]

from Latin inventiô inventiôn- [inventiveness]

源自 拉丁语 inventiô inventiôn- [创造性]

from inventus [past participle of] invenore [to find] * see invent

源自 inventus [] invenore的过去分词 [找到] *参见 invent

【引伸】

inven.tional

adj.（形容词）