telescope
英 ['telɪskəʊp]
美['tɛlɪskop]
- vt. 压缩；使套叠
- vi. 套叠；变短
- n. 望远镜；缩叠式旅行袋
词态变化
复数: telescopes;
助记提示
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).
中文词源
telescope 望远镜
tele-,远的，-scope,看，镜子，词源同 scope,microscope.
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. Mars was visible, dead in the centre of the telescope.
- 可以看得见火星，就在望远镜的正中央。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Like a telescope it has a curved mirror to collect the sunlight.
- 和望远镜一样，它有一个曲面镜可以积聚阳光。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The space telescope has taken the clearest pictures ever of Pluto.
- 太空望远镜拍摄到了迄今为止最清晰的冥王星的照片。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. to look at the stars through a telescope
- 用望远镜观察星星
来自《权威词典》
- 5. With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve - suvius.
- 用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口.
来自《简明英汉词典》