Telescope

(noun.) a magnifier of images of distant objects.

(verb.) make smaller or shorter; 'the novel was telescoped into a short play'.

(verb.) crush together or collapse; 'In the accident, the cars telescoped'; 'my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack'.

录入:费尔普斯

• The day was fine and clear; and the persons not being more than half a mile off she could see their every detail with the telescope. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Thus Galileo invented the telescope, and Newton discovered the law of gravitation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Nine years later Sir Isaac Newton, having studied Gregory’s plans, built the first reflecting telescope, which is now to be seen in the hall of the Royal Society in London. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Of his immediate surroundings, his telescope is most intimately his environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• When he leaves go of his hat to use his telescope, his hat flies off, with immense applause. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Its origin, like the telescope, is hidden in the dim distance of the past, but it is believed to antedate the telescope. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Inventions-- Alphabetical Writing; Arabic Notation; The Mariner's Compass; The Telescope; The Steam Engine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• At all the courts and universities the telescopes were received with the greatest enthusiasm, and put to instant use in the hope of discovering new stars. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Their lenses for telescopes and microscopes and photographic cameras, and glass and prisms, and for all chemical and other scientific work, have a worldwide reputation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In 1758 John Dolland reinvented and introduced the same in the manufacture of telescopes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He made use of telescopes 20 and 40 feet in focal length, and of 18. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He sent copies to some friends, and shortly his microscopes were as much in demand as his telescopes had been. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes, until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

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