inventor
inventor 英 [ɪnˈventə(r)] 美 [ɪnˈventə(r)]
n. 发明家；[专利] 发明人；创造者
名词复数:inventors
- The person who first comes up with a brand new idea or thing is its inventor. A woman named Mary Anderson, for example, is credited with being the inventor of the windshield wiper blade for cars.
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- n. 发明家；[专利] 发明人；创造者
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1. Nobody thought that he had turned out a great inventor.
没人想到他会变成一位伟大的发明家。
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2. “You have to be an optimist to be an inventor or entrepreneur, ” he concludes.
要成为一位发明家或企业家，你必须得是个乐天派。
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3. The Bank will evoke the memory of the inventor James Watt and his Birmingham business partner, Matthew Boulton on the new note.
英格兰银行将在新版钞票上唤起对发明家詹姆斯·瓦特和他的伯明翰商业伙伴马修·博尔顿的回忆。
- inventor (n.) c. 1500, "a discoverer, one who finds out" (now obsolete), from Latin inventor (fem. inventrix, source of French inventeur (15c.), Spanish inventor, Italian inventore) "contriver, author, discoverer, proposer, founder," agent noun 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." Meaning "one who contrives or produces a new thing or process" is from 1550s.
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