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/ɪnˈventər/ · /ɪnˈventə/
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.
發明家；發明人
複數 inventors
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…更多收起
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」。原始詞典資料1 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。
inventornoun/ɪnˈvɛntɚ/
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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.
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。