inventor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 发明者； 发明家，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He called it the Sleet's crow's-nest, in honor of himself; he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other apparatus we may beget.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made my humblest acknowledgment to this illustrious person, for his great communicativeness; and promised, 'if ever I had the good fortune to return to my native coun-try, that I would do him justice, as the sole inventor of this 230 Gulliver's Travelswonderful machine;' the form and contrivance of which I desired leave to delineate on paper, as in the figure here annexed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have you ever heard of any projector or inventor who failed to find it all but inaccessible, and whom it did not discourage and ill-treat?'
-- And here's another thing,' he said, stopping for a moment with a good-humoured laugh in his eyes, and laying his closed right hand, with its peculiar suppleness of thumb, on Clennam's arm, 'no inventor can be a man of business, you know.'
-- And there, too, was another Barnacle, a lively one, who had leaped through twenty places in quick succession, and was always in two or three at once, and who was the much-respected inventor of an art which he practised with great success and admiration in all Barnacle Governments.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Also a basket hung over the back of a chair, in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister, who, with feminine devotion, allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued, when the young inventor indig-nantly remarked, 'Why, Marmar, dat's my lellywaiter, and me's trying to pull her up.'
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