英语词汇invent怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

invent

ɪnvent  ɪnˈvɛnt 

Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense invents, present participle inventing, past tense , past participle invented

1 VERB 发明;创造;首创 If you invent something such as a machine or process, you are the first person to think of it or make it. 发明;创造;首创

SYN create, make, produce, develop

2 VERB 编造;捏造;虚构 If you invent a story or excuse, you try to make other people believe that it is true when in fact it is not. 编造;捏造;虚构

I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse. [VERB noun]

我站着不动,试图编个说得过去的借口。

SYN make up, devise, concoct, forge

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come up with, concoct, devise, originate 1 2

fabricate, make up 2

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