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- an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified望远镜。
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- short for RADIO TELESCOPE.RADIO TELESCOPE的简称。
with obj.
1- cause (an object made of concentric tubular parts) to slide into itself, so that it becomes smaller使叠缩; 使嵌进。
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- no obj. be capable of sliding together in this way叠缩; 嵌进：
five steel sections that telescope into one another.
层层叠缩的五个钢件。
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- crush (a vehicle) by the force of an impact使（车辆）相撞而嵌进。
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- figurative condense or conflate so as to occupy less space or time〈喻〉缩短; 精简：
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。
词源
mid 17th cent.: from Italian telescopio or modern Latin telescopium, from tele- 'at a distance' + -scopium （see -SCOPE）.