invents是什么意思？

invents

• v. 发明，创造( invent的第三人称单数 )，编造；

例句

• A . B . Strowger invents the telephone switch dial telephone. 史端乔发明自动电话交换系统.
• Christopher Sholes, a Milwaukee newspaper editor, invents the typewriter. 克里斯托夫?肖尔斯, 一位密尔沃基的报社编辑, 发明了打字机.
• She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure. 她幻想过着各种奇妙的生活，从想入非非中获得乐趣。
• She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure... 她幻想过着各种奇妙的生活，从想入非非中获得乐趣。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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.
  例句
  He invented the first electric clock... 他发明了第一个电动机械钟。 Writing had not been invented as yet. 书写体系当时还没有创造出来。
• 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.
  例句
  I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse. 我站着不动,试图编个说得过去的借口。