| 单词 | invention |
| 释义 | in·ven·tion 1. < invention of the principle of leverage > 2. a. < old crates and boxes are often more stimulating to a child's invention than expensive toys > b. < the variety and excellence of the classical legacy demonstrate the abundant invention of the ancient Greeks > < as a teller of tales he had rich invention and adroit construction — Brander Matthews > c. < the inventions, the devices which serve a novelist best grow … out of his necessity — Caroline Gordon > < a cascade of melodic invention — Harold Sinclair > < those pillars, that stair and varnished roof … were among the worst inventions of the Gothic revival — W.B.Yeats > d. 3. a. < invention of agreements or compromises — Weston La Barre > < no continuing agency to interpret the party platform after its slapdash invention every four years — R.L.Strout > < tried a long play of her own invention — Leslie Rees > b. < the idea that the royal family should be a symbol of respectability was an invention of Queen Victoria — Fritz Stern > < characterized the Supreme Court as the great political invention of the framers of the Constitution — Felix Frankfurter > < new social inventions are made by those who suffer from the current conditions — Ralph Linton > specifically < race theories are … a modern invention to explain such group conflicts — M.R.Cohen > < the whole purpose of the … argument being to invalidate the generally accepted romance and prove it an invention — E.V.Lucas > 4. a. < necessity is the mother of invention > < machinery of their own invention — American Guide Series: Maryland > b. < writing was a greater invention than the steam engine — A.N.Whitehead > specifically U.S. patent law |
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