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Inventor Person Invented Graham 英 ɪn'ventə(R)] 美 ɪn'ventər N.发明家;创造者

英语单词 inventor
英美音标 英 [ɪn'ventə(r)] 美 [ɪn'ventər]
中文释义 n.发明家;创造者
英语例句 (1) He is no more an inventor than an engineer.
(2) Edison was famous as a great inventor.
中文例句 (1) 他是工程师,不是发明家。
(2) 爱迪生以一位伟大的发明家而著名。
vocabulary简明 The person who first comes up with a brand new idea or thing is its inventor. A woman named Mary Anderson, for example, is credited with being the inventor of the windshield wiper blade for cars.
vocabulary扩展 Lewis Latimer invented many things during his lifetime, and drafted the patent for the telephone (with fellow inventor Alexander Graham Bell). Oddly enough, Latimer's first work as an inventor was developing a restroom for train cars, in 1874. In the 1940s, actress Hedy Lamarr was the inventor of a communications technology that eventually made wireless technology, including cell phones, possible. In Latin, inventor means "contriver, author, or discoverer."
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]发明家;发明者;创造者 An inventor is a person who has invented something, or whose job is to invent things.
  • ...Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.

    亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔,电话的发明者

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