Kaleidoscope
[kə'laɪdəskəʊp] or [kə'laɪdəskop]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors.
(noun.) a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes.
艾达校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design.
黛娜編輯
解釋/意思:
n. an optical toy in which we see an endless variety of beautiful colours and forms.—adj. Kaleidoscop′ic.
手打:波莉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Kaleidoscopes working before you in a dream, portend swift changes with little of favorable promise in them.
整理:米莉
例句/造句/用法:
- In such a Kaleidoscope, the circular figure will be formed by three reflections from each glass. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Every person, who could buy or make one, had a Kaleidoscope. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The Kaleidoscope invented by Sir David Brewster. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But this instrument was so different in its construction, and in the effects it produced, from the Kaleidoscope, that Sir David Brewster's claim to be the inventor may be freely admitted. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- He afterwards introduced other improvements in the Kaleidoscope, for extending its range of objects, for varying the angles of inclination, and for projecting the figures on a screen. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- For three hours we strolled about together, watching the ever-changing kaleidoscope of life as it ebbs and flows through Fleet Street and the Strand. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The Kaleidoscope was invented by Sir David Brewster in 1814, and British patent No. 4,136 granted him July 10, 1817, for the same. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- No invention, on being first brought out, created so general a sensation as the Kaleidoscope. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- This he thought might form a common platform for every variety of faith in India, that kaleidoscope of religions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the better kind of Kaleidoscopes, the cell containing the objects may be turned round, by which means the pieces of glass shift their positions, and the figures instantly change. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
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