1. He would invent fanciful names on the spot.
    他会当场编造出一些稀奇古怪的货名。

2. He was the kind of comic who used his physical senses to invent his art as he went along.
    他是那种边表演边根据身体感觉去创造艺术的喜剧演员。

3. It was necessary, therefore, to invent instruments that neither slumbered nor slept.
    因此，有必要发明一种仪器，既不打盹儿，也不睡觉。