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

• Inventing a father she never had.
  创造出一个她从来没有过的爸爸。
• Instead of inventing new devices, he has found ways to combine existing technologies so they work more efficiently.
  他并非发明了新的装置，而是将已有的技术有机地结合起来，他发现这样会让这些技术更有效率。
• This is the spirit of inventing and creating.
  这是有发明创造精神。
• 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。
• Freedom of religion even extends to inventing one's own.
  宗教自由甚至到了自创宗教的地步。
• He invested all his money in inventing a new kind of weapon that could work by itself.
  他投资了他所有的钱来发明一种新型的可以独自运作的武器。
• By inventing an entirely new kind of writing.
  我发明了全新的写作方式。
• 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。
• With the inventing of the computer, society seems to have changed greatly.
  随著电脑的发明，社会似乎已经大大地改变了。
• 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。