telescope

['teliskəup]

n.望远镜
v.缩短, 压缩, 套叠

n.[C]

1. (单筒)望远镜

He looked through his telescope at the approaching ship.

他透过望远镜看着驶近的轮船。

2. 缩叠式旅行袋

vt.

1. 使套叠; 使相嵌

He took out a white rod which he telescoped into a walking stick.

他拿出一根白色长棍, 把它缩折成一根手杖。

2. 缩短

It is difficult to telescope 200 years of history into one lecture.

把二百年的历史浓缩在一个讲座中很是困难。

vi.

1. 套叠; 相嵌

As a result of the collision, the first two cars telescoped.

由于相撞, 头两节车厢叠嵌在一起了。

2. 变短

词形变化

动词过去式: telescoped | 动词过去分词: telescoped | 动词现在分词: telescoping | 动词第三人称单数: telescopes |

词义辨析

同义:

n.望远镜, 显微镜

scope  glass  spyglass  field glasses  binoculars  opera glasses  periscope  microscope  optical instrument  radio telescope

v.缩短, 压缩, 摘要, 挤入

shorten  abbreviate  truncate  cut  condense  reduce  boil down  abstract  capsulize  summarize  brief  synopsize  abridge  compact  compress  contract  tighten  make tight  consolidate  squeeze together  jam together  shrink  

同义参见:

lens  

英英释义

名词 telescope:

a magnifier of images of distant objects

同义词：scope

动词 telescope:

crush together or collapse

make smaller or shorter

补充

telescopetelescope英:[ˈteliskəup] 美:[ˈtɛlɪˌskop]n.1.望远镜She resolved to make a telescope.她决心做一架望远镜。vt. & vi.1.(使某物)变短(叠缩在一起)2.(使某物)叠缩, 嵌入vt.1.压缩某物使其少占空间或时间

例句

1. Sharpe trained his telescope on Collingwood's flagship.夏普将望远镜对准科灵伍德号旗舰。 2. Time had become curiously telescoped lately.最近不知为何时间变得越来越短了。 3. The novel was telescoped into a short play.小说被浓缩成了一部短剧。 4. When the two trains crashed into each other,the cars were telescoped.当两列火车相撞时，车厢都叠挤到一块儿了。 5. He telescoped the whole story into one paragraph.他把整个故事缩为一段。 6. I suggest we telescope the seminar into an hour.我建议将研讨会缩短为一个小时。 7. The cars telescoped after the train crashed.火车相撞后，车厢叠挤到一块儿了。 8. The years seemed to have telescoped.这些年似乎一下子缩短了。 9. five steel sections that telescope into one another.层层叠缩的五个钢件。 10. a way of telescoping many events into a relatively brief period.把许多事件浓缩在一个相对短暂的时期内的办法。 11. The rings of Saturn can be seen through a telescope.通过望远镜能看到土星环。 12. The radio antenna telescopes.收音机的拉杆天线可以伸缩。 13. The director needed to telescope [=condense] the four-hour movie into three hours.导演需要把四小时的电影缩短到三小时。