a piece of equipment like a tube in shape, containing lenses, that you look through to make objects that are far away appear larger and nearer 望远镜 to look at the stars through a telescope 用望远镜观察星星
Extra ExamplesTopics Spaceb2, Scientific researchb2She set up her telescope on the balcony. 她在阳台上架起了望远镜。 These stars are too faint to been seen without a telescope. 这些恒星太暗淡,不用望远镜看不到。 They've built the largest telescope in the world. 他们建造了世界上最大的望远镜。 images from the Hubble space telescope 从哈勃空间望远镜传来的图像
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- powerful
- 60 mm
- etc.
- …
- use
- point
- set up
- …
- through a/the telescope
- with a telescope
- without a telescope
- …
- the wrong end of a telescope
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Italian telescopio or modern Latin telescopium, from tele- ‘at a distance’ + -scopium (from Greek skopein ‘look at’).