• vt. 压缩；使套叠
• vi. 套叠；变短
• n. 望远镜；缩叠式旅行袋

tele-,远的，-scope,看，镜子，词源同 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》