telescope

• vt. 圧縮する；重ねる
• vi. 折り畳む；短くする
• n. 双眼鏡；折り畳まれた旅行鞄

tele-、far、-scope、look、mirror、語源はscope、microscopeと同じ。

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 .

火星が見え、望遠鏡の真ん中にある。

2.Like a telescope it has a curved mirror to collect the sunlight.

望遠鏡と同じように、太陽の光を蓄積する曲面鏡があります。

3.The space telescope has taken the clearest pictures ever of Pluto.

宇宙望遠鏡は、これまでで最も鮮明な冥王星の写真を撮影した。

4.to look at the stars through a telescope

望遠鏡で星を観察

5.With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.

望遠鏡で巨大なヴィスウェイ火口を見ることができます。