想出前所未有的東西
核心那一面的三個切面：動作、成品，以及做得出來的那份能力。
act of inventing · noun · B1
the act of making or thinking of something new for the first time.
發明
核心畫面
Picture the moment something exists that did not exist before, because a person put it together in their head first — a machine, a method, a story. English lets this one noun cover the whole arc: the act of coming up with it, the thing that results, the knack for doing it, and — when what was made up is a story passed off as true — a lie.
可以想成：某樣東西從不存在變成存在的那一刻，而它之所以出現，是因為有人先在腦中把它組出來——一台機器、一種方法、一個…更多收起
可以想成：某樣東西從不存在變成存在的那一刻，而它之所以出現，是因為有人先在腦中把它組出來——一台機器、一種方法、一個故事。英文讓這一個名詞把整條線都包起來：想出來的那個動作、想出來的那個東西、想得出東西的那份本事，以及——當被編出來的是一個被當成真的來說的故事時——一則謊。Two branches
編出來的說法
同樣是「無中生有」，只是做出來的是一個說法，而且被當成事實在講。
a made-up story · noun · B1
a story or explanation that someone has made up and that is not true.
虛構；捏造
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
inventionnoun/ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
- 1
Something invented.
- My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.
- I’m afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper’s invention.
- 2
The act of inventing.
- The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.
- Invention, or the Genius of Hiſtoricizing and framing a Noble Idea upon the Subject one vvould Paint, is a particular Talent, not to be acquir'd by Study or Labour; but is properly a certain ardor exciting the Imagination, prompting and enabling it to Act.
- 3
The capacity to invent.
- It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
- 4
entertainmentlifestylemusicA small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
- I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
- INVENTION. A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces — 15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts — each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
- 5
archaicThe act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
- That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。