telescope
英 ['tel?sk??p]
美['t?l?skop]
- vt. 壓縮；使套疊
- vi. 套疊；變短
- n. 望遠鏡；縮疊式旅行袋
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詞態變化
復數:?telescopes;
助記提示
1、tele- + -scope.
2、"to force together one inside the other" (like the sliding tubes of some telescopes).
2、"to force together one inside the other" (like the sliding tubes of some telescopes).
中文詞源
telescope 望遠鏡
tele-,遠的，-scope,看，鏡子，詞源同 scope,microscope.
英文詞源
- telescope (n.)
- 1640s, from Italian telescopio (Galileo, 1611), and Modern Latin telescopium (Kepler, 1613), both from Greek teleskopos "far-seeing," from tele- "far" (see tele-) + -skopos "watcher" (see scope (n.1)). Said to have been coined by Prince Cesi, founder and head of the Roman Academy of the Lincei (Galileo was a member). Used in English in Latin form from 1619.
- telescope (v.)
- "to force together one inside the other" (like the sliding tubes of some telescopes), 1867, from telescope (n.). Related: Telescoped; telescoping.
雙語例句
- 1. Mars was visible, dead in the centre of the telescope.
- 可以看得見火星，就在望遠鏡的正中央。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Like a telescope it has a curved mirror to collect the sunlight.
- 和望遠鏡一樣，它有一個曲面鏡可以積聚陽光。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The space telescope has taken the clearest pictures ever of Pluto.
- 太空望遠鏡拍攝到了迄今為止最清晰的冥王星的照片。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. to look at the stars through a telescope
- 用望遠鏡觀察星星
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve - suvius.
- 用望遠鏡你能看到巨大的維蘇威火山口.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》