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。
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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。
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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.
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5. The Nobel Medal bears the image of the great Swedish inventor.
