invent

英 [?n'vent] 美[?n'v?nt]

反義詞

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第三人稱單數(shù):?invents;過去式:?invented;過去分詞:?invented;現(xiàn)在分詞:?inventing;

invent 發(fā)明，創(chuàng)造

in-,進(jìn)入，使，-vent,來，來到，詞源同advent,venture.即來到，到達(dá)，引申詞義找到，發(fā)現(xiàn)，后來進(jìn)一步指發(fā)明，創(chuàng)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 a??to come upon; devise, discovera?? (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.: 他父親幫助創(chuàng)造了一套全新的生意經(jīng)。

2. We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.: 我們必須想出新的辦法使囚犯們偷偷溜出去而不被看守發(fā)現(xiàn).

4. Soon designers began to invent new idioms expressly for the toolbar.: 不久,設(shè)計者開始為工具欄發(fā)明新的習(xí)慣用法.

5. He can always invent a new game to divert the children.: 他總能想出新的游戲來供孩子們娛樂.