invent

• vt.发明；创造；虚构

in-,进入，使，-vent,来，来到，词源同advent,venture.即来到，到达，引申词义找到，发现，后来进一步指发明，创造。

invent

invent: [15] Invent originally meant ‘find’ (‘Since that Eve was procreated out of Adam’s side, could not such newels [novelties] in this land be invented’, wrote the anonymous author of a 15th-century song). It was based on invent-, the past participial stem of Latin invenīre ‘come upon, find’, a compound verb formed from the prefix in- ‘on’ and venīre ‘come’.The sense ‘devise’, which developed via ‘discover’, actually existed in the Latin verb, but English did not take it on board until the 16th century. The derivative inventory [16] was borrowed from medieval Latin inventōrium ‘list’, an alteration of late Latin inventārium, which originally meant a ‘finding out’, hence an ‘enumeration’.=> adventure, inventory

invent (v.)

late 15c., "find, discover," a back-formation from invention or else from Latin inventus, past participle of invenire “to come upon; devise, discover” (see invention). Meaning "make up, think up" is from 1530s, as is that of "produce by original thought." Related: Invented; inventing.

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。

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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.

来自《简明英汉词典》

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。

来自辞典例句

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.

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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.

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