英 [ɪnˈventɪd] 美 [ɪnˈventɪd]
v. 发明，创造；编造，虚构（invent 的过去式和过去分词）
invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/ CET4 TEM4 [ inventing invented invents ]
及物动词 If you invent something such as a machine or process, you are the first person to think of it or make it. 发明
He invented the first electric clock.
他发明了第一个电动钟。
及物动词 If you invent a story or excuse, you try to make other people believe that it is true when in fact it is not. 虚构
I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse.
我静静地站着，努力想编出一个听上去可信的借口。
formed or conceived by the imagination
同义词： fabricated / fancied / fictional / fictitious / made-up
发明-引用次数：19
Some people forecast the tech-nology of internet will be the most great technology invent in next 1,000 years.
有人预测，网络技术将是下一个千年中最重要的技术发明，它将对社会发展产生巨大的推动力。
参考来源论网络技术对社会发展的作用
虚构-引用次数：2
The human being invent a“second real world, but not depart from the flesh and blood.
人通过语言虚构了一个第二真实的世界,却没有“离于世”,而是将生命或灵魂注于物性的世界,让世界生命化。
参考来源论诗性语言
... 虚拟: invented; fictitious detail>> 储存器: reservoir detail>> 现实虚拟: virtual reality detail>> ...
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发明；虚构（invent的过去分词）
Esperanto was invented as an auxiliary language.
世界语是作为辅助语发明的。
He invented a new game, but it never really caught on.
他发明了一种新的游戏，但从未真正流行起来。
Who invented the question mark?
谁发明了问号？
He invented the skill of throwing a special rope called a lasso over a cow's head to catch wandering cattle.
VOA : special.2011.06.11
And so, Rutherford had a fellow working in his lab by the name of Geiger. And, Geiger invented a detector.
卢瑟福的一个实验同事,叫做盖革，他发明了一种探测器。
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And the fact of the matter is that rock and roll, which was invented within the lifetime of many of us.
事实上，我们很多人，见证了摇滚的诞生和发展。
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So it seems that a biography written shortly after his death included several invented stories about his early life.
VOA : special.2010.02.23
Others say Edward O'Reilly invented the character in stories he wrote for The Century Magazine in the early nineteen hundreds.
VOA : special.2009.11.28
Sony engineers invented Betamax, only to see the cheaper VHS become the standard for videocassette recorders.
John Tyndall, an English experimenter, demonstrated one before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Invented in a pub in the 1970s, toe wrestling plays out very much like a traditional arm-wrestling match.