单词
inventor
英 [?n'vent?]
美[?n'v?nt?]
基本信息
- n. 发明家；[专利] 发明人；创造者
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词态变化
复数:?inventors;
英文词源
- inventor (n.)
- c. 1500, "a discoverer," from Latin inventor (fem. inventrix) "contriver, author, discoverer," agent noun from past participle stem of invenire (see invention). Meaning "one who contrives or produces a new thing or process" is from 1550s.
双语例句
- 1. The royalties enabled the inventor to re-establish himself in business.
- 专利使用费让这位发明家得以再次立足于商界。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He became famous as an inventor of astonishing visual and aural effects.
- 他因发明了神奇的视听效果而出名。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. In my youth my ambition had been to be an inventor.
- 我年轻时的抱负是成为一个发明家。
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- 4. Edison won his spurs as an inventor while rather young.
- 爱迪生很年轻的时候就获得了发明家的声誉.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. The Nobel Medal bears the image of the great Swedish inventor.
- 诺贝尔奖章上有这位瑞典的伟大发明家的像.
来自《简明英汉词典》