telescope
美音:
[´teləs´kəup
]英音:
[´teləs´kəup
]n.望远镜 v.压缩
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telescope为六级词汇
词形变化:
动词过去式:telescoped 过去分词:telescoped 现在分词:telescoping 第三人称单数:telescopes
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telescope
/'telɪskəʊp; `tɛlə,skop/
n optical instrument shaped like a tube, with lenses to make distant objects appear larger and nearer 望远镜.
v
1 [I, Tn] (cause sth to) becomeshorter by sliding overlapping sections inside one another(使某物)变短(叠缩在一起). =>illus 见插图.
2 [I, Tn] (cause sth to) become compressed forcibly (使某物)叠缩, 嵌入
*The first two carriages of the train (were) telescoped in the crash. 火车撞车时前两节车箱叠嵌在一起了.
3 [Tn, Tn.pr] ~ sth (into sth) condense sth so that it occupies less space or time 压缩某物使其少占空间或时间
*Three episodes have been telescoped into a single programme. 把三集的内容压缩成了一个节目.
1. Even a telescope in orbit round the earth, like the very successful Hubble telescope, would not be suitable because of the dust particles in our solar system. 即使是一台放置在围绕地球的轨道上的望远镜--如非常成功的哈勃望远镜--也因为太阳系中的尘埃微粒而无法胜任。
2. But can we blame those who looked and failed to see what Galileo saw, if we remember that to use a telescope at the limit of its powers calls for long experience and intimate familiarity with one´s instrument? 但是,如果我们想到,便用一架倍数有限的望远镜需要长期的经验和对自己仪器的熟悉程度,那么我们怎么能去责备观察了天空但没有看到伽利略所看到的东西的那些人呢?
3. Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo´s telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse´s great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder? 某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空;到了19世纪40年代,有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗?
4. The development of such a telescope will be one of the great astronomical projects of the twenty-first century. 而开发这样一台望远镜将会是21世纪天文学的一个重要的研究课题。
5. The Hubble telescope was launched into space by NASA on April 20, 1990 at a cost of over a billion dollars. 哈勃望远镜于1990年4月20日由国家航空航天局发射升空,耗资10多亿美元。
6. NASA is now going to put the telescope right, so it will soon be sending up four astronauts to repair it. 国家航天局准备纠正这一错误,为此将把4名宇航员送入太空修复望远镜。
7. He built a telescope through which he could study the skies. 他造了一架望远镜, 使他能够研究太空.
8. He had been the first to turn a telescope to the sky, and he had seen there evidence enough to overthrow Aristotle and Ptolemy together. 他是第一个把望远镜对准天空的人,观察到的论据足以把亚里士多德和托勒密一起推翻。
9. At present, there is no telescope in existence that is capable of detecting the presence of life. 现在,没有一台现存的望远镜可以发现生命的存在。
10. A telescope would have to be as far away as the planet Jupiter to look for life in outer space, 望远镜要放置在木星那样遥远的行星上才有可能在外层空间搜寻生命。
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