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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ‘A capital quartermaster, with his invention of shipwreck.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Because look here, prince, I don't mind telling you now that as we were going along to Wilkin's this morning, after telling me what you know about the fire, and saving the count and all that, the general was pleased to drop certain hints to the same effect about Ferdishenko, but so vaguely and clumsily that I thought better to put a few questions to him on the matter, with the result that I found the whole thing was an invention of his excellency's own mind.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingoes, that can cheat me!I have heard the forest moan like mortal men in their affliction; often, and again, have I listened to the wind play-ing its music in the branches of the girdled trees; and I have heard the lightning cracking in the air like the snapping of blazing brush as it spitted forth sparks and forked flames; but never have I thought that I heard more than the plea-sure of him who sported with the things of his hand.
-- As the thoughts of those who are in misery seldom slumber, and the invention is never more lively than when it is stimulated by hope, however feeble and remote, he had even imagined that the parental feelings of Munro were to be made instrumental in seduc-ing him from his duty to the king.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In giving to the character of his invention flesh and bones he is giving life to that part of himself which finds no other means of expression.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is what dismayed me: the sense of some hitherto unsuspected power, through whose intervention my invention had vanished.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was out of the room in a moment, and ran down stairs or, at least, it wasn't exactly running, but a new invention of hers for getting down stairs quickly and easily, as Alice said to herself.
-- 'It's an invention of my own.
-- 'Is that your invention too?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You had ought to tell me that you and the rest, that lost me my schooner, with your interference, burn you!But not you, you can't; you hain't got the invention of a cockroach.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a misfortune that the secret of such an invention should die with its inventor!"
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave me all the assurances that the invention or faith of man could devise that he would comply with these most reasonable demands, and besides would owe his life to me, and acknowledge it upon all occasions as long as he lived.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Margaret," said Marianne with great warmth, "you know that all this is an invention of your own, and that there is no such person in existence."
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