invention
invention 英 [ɪnˈvenʃn] 美 [ɪnˈvɛnʃən]
n. 发明；虚构；
名词复数:inventions
- If you create a new device or process, it's called an invention. Many futuristic inventions from science fiction have come true, though no one has successfully invented a time machine.
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- n. 发明；虚构；
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1. Fax machines were a wonderful invention at the time.
传真机在当时是一项了不起的发明。
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2. This story is apparently a complete invention.
这个故事显然完全是虚构的。
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3. since the invention of the printing press,
自从发明了印刷机
- invention (n.) early 15c., "finding or discovering of something," from Old French invencion (13c.) and directly from Latin inventionem (nominative inventio) "faculty of invention," noun of action from past participle stem of invenire "to come upon, find; find out; invent, discover, devise; ascertain; acquire, get earn," from in- "in, on" (from PIE root *en "in") + venire "to come," from a suffixed form of PIE root *gwa- "to go, come." Sense of "thing invented" is first recorded 1510s; that of "act or process of finding out how to make or do" is from 1530s.
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