telescope
英 ['telɪskəʊp]
美 ['tɛlɪskop]
- vt. 壓縮；使套疊
- vi. 套疊；變短
- n. 望遠鏡；縮疊式旅行袋
助記提示
1、tele- + -scope.
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，它有一個曲麵鏡可以積聚陽光。
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》