inventing

英 [ɪnˈventɪŋ]

美 [ɪnˈventɪŋ]

v.  发明; 创造; 编造; 捏造; 虚构
invent的现在分词

COCA.42909

柯林斯词典

• VERB 发明;创造;首创
  If youinventsomething such as a machine or process, you are the first person to think of it or make it.
  1. He invented the first electric clock...
     他发明了第一个电动机械钟。
  2. Writing had not been invented as yet.
     书写体系当时还没有创造出来。
• VERB 编造;捏造;虚构
  If youinventa story or excuse, you try to make other people believe that it is true when in fact it is not.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• By inventing the telephone, he opened the age of telecommunications and shrank the world.
  发明了电话，他开的年龄缩水电信和世界。
• He succeeded in inventing the telephone by hard efforts.
  他以艰苦的努力成功地发明了电话。
• Children with imaginary friends have a lot of practice at inventing interactions between their imaginary friends and themselves.
  基德博士指出：「儿童有了幻想的朋友，在自己与朋友虚构的互动过程中，增加了很多练习的机会。
• Whenever you find yourself inventing a complex algorithm you are probably on the wrong track.
  无论何时，你发现自己发明了一个复杂的算法，你很可能走在了错误的轨道上。
• He was soon hard at work making improve-ments in the machine and inventing new parts.
  他不久就努力从事改进机器和发明新部件的工作。
• Inventing a father she never had.
  创造出一个她从来没有过的爸爸。
• In 1943 Jacques Cousteau and his friend made it possible by inventing the scuba machine.
  1943年，雅克·库斯托和他的朋友发明了水下呼吸器，才使潜水成为可能。
• Don't you think it's time to give up this inventing thing, get a real job?
  难道你不觉得应该放弃所谓的发明，而是去找个真正的工作吗？
• I can't imagine how one ever goes about inventing a tune.
  我无法想象一个人居然可以想出一个调子来。
• Crusoe spent his time as a castaway building and inventing.
  克鲁索过着不断建造和发明的漂流者的生活。