过去式: invented 过去分词: invented 现在分词: inventing。invent的基本意思为“发明”,强调运用想象力创造出以前从来未有的事物(机器、设备、方法、材料等); 也可指通过调查研究和思考发明有用的东西,强调通过智慧和思考,而非靠灵感来“发明创造”。
invent的用法例句:
1. His father had helped invent a whole new way of doing business.
他父亲帮助创造了一套全新的生意经。
2. We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.
我们必须想出新的办法使囚犯们偷偷溜出去而不被看守发现.
3. 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。
4. Soon designers began to invent new idioms expressly for the toolbar.
不久,设计者开始为工具栏发明新的习惯用法.
5. He can always invent a new game to divert the children.
他总能想出新的游戏来供孩子们娱乐.
6. Roy cast his job aside in order to invent a new machine.
罗伊为了发明新机器而抛弃工作.
7. We must invent an extension of the idea of triangulation.
我们必须把三角法这个观念加以引伸.
8. To accomplish this result it was only necessary to invent a township.
要达到这个目的,所需要的就是创立乡区.
9. Don't ask George what his excuse is, he can invent any number.
别问乔治的理由是什么, 他可以虚构很多借口.
10. He had to invent himself almost completely.
他不得不自我塑造,简直是从头干起.