You can picture a long tube you hold up to your eye to pull far things close. But hold the object itself in your hands, not just its purpose: an old telescope is built from several tubes of different widths, so you can pull it out long to use it and then push the sections down inside one another until the whole thing is short enough to fit in a pocket. Both halves of this word live in that one object — the looking, and the sliding-shorter.
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原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
telescopenoun/ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/
- 1
A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that it was a Sun.
- It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.
- 2
Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- 3
broadcastingmediatelevisionA retractable tubular support for lights.
- In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]
- 4
A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
- Chinese Telescopes are sold by some dealers for young Japanese Fringetails. For this reason it is well to select a reliable dealer when purchasing choice stock.
telescopeverb/ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/
- 1
To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.
- 2
To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- 3
To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
- 4
mathematicssciencesTo collapse, via cancellation.
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