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.
雙語例句
1. The royalties enabled the inventor to re-establish himself in business.
專利使用費讓這位發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.
他因發明了神奇的視聽效果而出名。
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3. In my youth my ambition had been to be an inventor.
我年輕時的抱負是成為一個發明家。
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4. Edison won his spurs as an inventor while rather young.
愛迪生很年輕的時候就獲得了發明家的聲譽.
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5. The Nobel Medal bears the image of the great Swedish inventor.