build a better mousetrap

动词 v.
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英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To create a new product, method, or idea that is better than an existing version of something already common or widely used. idiomatic
    — Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

词形变化

builds a better mousetrap present,singular,third-person building a better mousetrap participle,present built a better mousetrap participle,past built a better mousetrap past

词源

A shortening of build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Derived from the quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. (1855).
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