invention
n. 发明, 创作能力, 虚构的故事 [经] 发明
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教材释义与例句
发明；发明物；虚构；发明才能
a useful machine, tool, instrument etc that has been invented
The dishwasher is a wonderful invention.
洗碗机是一项奇妙的发明。
释义与例句
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Something invented.
发明
可数 不可数My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.
I’m afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper’s invention.
Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. […] Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.
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The act of inventing.
可数 不可数The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.
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The capacity to invent.
可数 不可数It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
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A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
可数 不可数 音乐I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
INVENTION. A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces — 15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts — each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
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The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
古体 可数 不可数That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.
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词源
From Middle English invencion, invencioun, from Latin inventiō either directly or via Middle French invencion, from Latin invenīre (“to discover, find, invent”), from in- (“in-: in, into”) + venīre (“to come”). Doublet of inventio. By surface analysis, invent + -ion. Displaced native Old English orþanc.
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