英 [ɪnˈvenʃ(ə)n] 美 [ɪnˈvenʃ(ə)n]
n. 发明物；发明，创造；虚构，编造；发明才能，创造力；创意曲（短乐曲的题目）
复数inventions
invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/ CET4 TEM4
可数名词 An invention is a machine, device, or system that has been invented by someone. 发明物
The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
纺车是中国人的一项发明。
不可数名词 Invention is the act of inventing something that has never been made or used before. 发明
...the invention of the telephone.
…电话的发明。
有变体名词 If you refer to someone's account of something as an invention, you think that it is untrue and that they have made it up. 虚构
The story was certainly a favourite one, but it was undoubtedly pure invention.
这个故事的确是人们最喜欢的一个，但毫无疑问它纯粹是虚构的。
不可数名词 Invention is the ability to invent things or to have clever and original ideas. 发明才能
Perhaps, with such powers of invention and mathematical ability, he will be offered a job in computers.
或许，拥有这样的创造能力和数学才能，他会得到一份计算机方面的工作。
the creation of something in the mind
同义词： innovation / excogitation / conception / design
a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
同义词： innovation
the act of inventing
发明-引用次数：310
Service invention system is scientific and technological progress and the social development of the product.
职务发明创造制度是科技进步和社会发展的产物。
创作-引用次数：30
TV program; invention; strategy; globalization; localization
电视节目; 创作; 战略; “全球化”; “本土化”
参考来源全球化语境中的“本土坚守”
创新-引用次数：29
The scientific discovery is invention process passing through in the science research.
科学发现是贯穿于科学研究过程中的创新活动。
参考来源科学发现过程与本质的多元解读
创作-引用次数：29
Chinese opera has more room to further develop than dramatic music in either contents or literary style because it is not restricted to the traditional format in invention and research of the opera.
在歌剧的创作和研究方面,由于不像戏曲音乐一样受到传统的制约,歌剧不管是内容还是体裁都有着自由广阔的发展空间。
参考来源管窥中国歌剧的音乐主题与“三绝”
创意曲-引用次数：7
参考来源本特松十五首二部创意曲研究
适当题目(或论据)的选择
发明（Invention）是指具有独创性、新颖性、实用性和时间性的技术。这种包括有形的物品和无形的方法等，在被发明出来之前，客观上是不存在的。
3、巴赫二部 创意曲 两首： 创意曲 （ Invention ）是一种小型的复调乐曲，它一般根据短小而富有特征的动机，以模仿和复对位手法创作而成。
创造(Invention)：创造是指寻找一个能够解决目前绩效差距或错误的解答。包括了诊断绩效差距的因素，以及发明一个适当的解答来减少错误的发生。
... inversion n.反向，倒转，倒置 invention n.发明(物);捏造;发明(创造)的才能 invent vt.创造，发明;虚构，捏造 ...
inventive 发明的；有发明才能的；独出心裁的
inventor 发明家；[专利] 发明人；创造者
inventiveness 创造性；发明的才能
invent 发明；创造；虚构
[专利]发明；发明物；虚构；发明才能
The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
纺车是中国人的一项发明。
You can't fault them for lack of invention.
你不能因为他们没有发明而加以批评他们。
His invention was not commercially successful.
他的发明从赢利角度看并不成功。
Mike Henry began to think other people who owned just a few goats might be interested in his invention.
VOA : special.2010.07.20
That's another invention of the 1600s, by the way-- the thermometer. And they learned that concept-- perfectly natural to us--temperature.
顺便说一下,温度计也是十七世纪的发明,那时候的人才刚刚开始理解温度的概念,虽然对我们来说这是个很自然的概念
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So a hundred years really before the invention of Game Theory, someone had figured out this answer for this game.
一百多年前博弈论还没有诞生呢,那时就有人解除了这个博弈的答案
博弈论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
The government gave a patent to Edward J.Claghorn of New York City so that others would not copy his invention.
VOA : special.2010.02.09
A patent forbids others from copying an invention and makes the invention valuable in the world of business.
VOA : special.2009.05.13
With the invention of indoor plumbing, outhouses have mostly become a thing of the past.
BBC: Toilets take to the streets in annual US outhouse races
In order to win over manufacturers, Fenelon had to test his invention seven ways to Sunday.
The job of invention does not complete the cycle of disruption that advances our world.
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创意曲invention 复调结构的钢琴小曲。类似前奏曲或小赋格曲。