invention是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 发明， 创造， 发明物，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The co-eds murmured that he "looked so romantic," but as this was before the invention of sex and the era of petting- parties, they merely talked about him at a distance, and he did not know that he could have been a hero of amours.
-- No organization could rival Almus Pickerbaugh in the invention of Weeks.
-- Sir Robert listened so agreeably that Martin thought he understood, but at the end he bellowed: "Young man, if I were commanding a division at the front, with a dud show, an awful show, going on, and a War Office clerk asked me to risk the whole thing to try out some precious little invention of his own, can you imagine what I'd answer?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transportswith the room that was revealed to him; and when I heated thecoffee in an unassuming blocktin vessel in which Mrs. Cruppdelighted to prepare it (chiefly, I believe, because it was notintended for the purpose, being a shaving-pot, and because therewas a patent invention of great price mouldering away in thepantry), he professed so much emotion, that I could joyfully havescalded him.
-- He was as radiant, as ifhis chair, his asthma, and the failure of his limbs, were the variousbranches of a great invention for enhancing the luxury of a pipe.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, as was shown by what followed, she was oddly exercising the faculty of invention upon the speciality of the clever Jacquet Droz, the designer of automatic substitutes for human limbs.
-- The ultimate and saddest singularity of woman's effort and invention was reached when, with a quickened breathing, she rose to a stooping posture, and, resting her two little arms upon the shoulders of the dog, leant firmly thereon, and murmured stimulating words.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ... No, Scarlett, the idea of assistance fromabroad is just a newspaper invention to keep up the morale of the South.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they had asked me any more questions, I should undoubtedly have betrayed myself, for I was even then on the point of mentioning that there was a balloon in the yard, and should have hazarded the statement but for my invention being divided between that phenomenon and a bear in the brewery.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement.
-- He assured me 'that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest compu-tation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech.'
-- And this invention would certain-ly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the women, in conjunction with the vulgar and illiterate, had not threatened to raise a rebellion unless they might be allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues, after the manner of their forefathers; such constant ir- 231reconcilable enemies to science are the common people.
-- Another great advantage proposed by this invention was, that it would serve as a universal language, to be understood in all civilised nations, whose goods and utensils are gener-ally of the same kind, or nearly resembling, so that their uses might easily be comprehended.
-- He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now as I had a strong conviction that the Runic alphabet and dialect were simply an invention to mystify poor human nature, I was delighted to find that my uncle knew as much about the matter as I did--which was nothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dozen years ago, he perfects an invention (involving a very curious secret process) of great importance to his country and his fellow-creatures.
-- How, after interminable attendance and correspondence, after infinite impertinences, ignorances, and insults, my lords made a Minute, number three thousand four hundred and seventy-two, allowing the culprit to make certain trials of his invention at his own expense.
-- How there was a reference of the invention to three Barnacles and a Stiltstalking, who knew nothing about it; into whose heads nothing could be hammered about it; who got bored about it, and reported physical impossibilities about it.
-- It was objected by the murderous party that this Refrain was notoriously the invention of a tambour-worker, a spinster and romantic, still lodging in the Yard.
-- In this was to be found the basis of the wise system, by tooth and nail upheld by the Circumlocution Office, of warning every ingenious British subject to be ingenious at his peril: of harassing him, obstructing him, inviting robbers (by making his remedy uncertain, and expensive) to plunder him, and at the best of confiscating his property after a short term of enjoyment, as though invention were on a par with felony.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He left it in a great lonely field, where it was found by a...' 'Little goose girl, who kept a hundred fat geese in the field,' said Amy, when Sallie's invention gave out.
-- Jo accepted it with a smile, for she had never outgrown her liking for lads, and soon found herself involved in the usual labyrinth of love, mystery, and murder, for the story belonged to that class of light literature in which the pas-sions have a holiday, and when the author's invention fails, a grand catastrophe clears the stage of one half the dramatis personae, leaving the other half to exult over their down-fall.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my wicker-ware also I improved much, and made abundance of necessary baskets, as well as my invention showed me; though not very handsome, yet they were such as were very handy and convenient for laying things up in, or fetching things home.
-- But my invention now ran quite another way; for night and day I could think of nothing but how I might destroy some of the monsters in their cruel, bloody enter-tainment, and if possible save the victim they should bring hither to destroy.
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