喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ɪnˈventər/ · /ɪnˈventə/發明家；發明人

    someone who has made or designed something new that did not exist before, especially a machine, or whose job is to think of and make new things.

    示範例句 · Example

    Marconi was the inventor of the radio.

    逐字馬可尼是無線電的發明者。

    inventor 指「做出以前沒有的東西的人」，特別是機器或裝置；也可以指「工作就是想新東西、做新東西的人」。可以想成它就是從動詞 invent（發明）長出來的人：invent 是做出新的東西，inventor 就是做這件事的那個人。它跟 discoverer（發現者）很容易混在一起——discoverer 是找到本來就在那裡的東西（像一顆新的星星），inventor 是做出本來不存在的東西（像電話）。

    常見搭配

    • the inventor of something

      某樣東西的發明人

      the person who first made a particular new thing

      Aisha read a book about the inventor of the paper clip.

    • a great inventor

      偉大的發明家

      an inventor whose work changed many people's lives

      Her grandmother tells her stories about great inventors from long ago.

    • a young inventor

      小小發明家

      a child or teenager who makes new things

      The science fair gave a prize to a young inventor from our school.

    • become an inventor

      成為發明家

      to start doing inventing as your work

      He fixed bicycles for years before he became an inventor.

core核心畫面

You can picture someone standing over a with a thing on it that nobody has ever seen before — because they are the one who thought of it and made it. Not a person who found something that was already there, and not a person who built one more copy of something we already have: the person from whose head the thing first came.

一個人站在工作檯前，檯面上那個東西在此之前世界上根本沒有——因為它就是從這個人的腦袋裡первый次跑出來的。重點不是「做得出來」，而是「先想得出來」：不是發現本來就存在的東西，也不是照著別人的圖再做一台，而是那個東西第一次成形的地方就是他。字根上 in-（進去）+ vent-（來）本來就是「碰上、找到」的意思，後來收窄成這種「第一個想出來並做出來的人」。

同家族的字

複數 inventors

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

inventornoun/ɪnˈvɛntɚ/

  • 1

    One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

    • Thomas Edison was the inventor of the phonograph.
    • The young inventor received a patent for her design.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。