• vt. 壓縮；使套疊
• vi. 套疊；變短
• n. 望遠鏡；縮疊式旅行袋

tele-,遠的，-scope,看，鏡子，詞源同 scope,microscope.

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.

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》