kaleidoscope

参见：kaléidoscope

英语

万花筒内部

万花筒的筒身

替代写法

• caleidoscope

词源

来自古希腊语 καλός (kalós, “美丽”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “形状”)（对照-oid） +‎ -scope。1817年由发明家大卫·布儒斯特所创。

用作比喻义则是1819年的拜伦勋爵从出版社那边收到一个万花筒而来。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/kəˈlaɪdəˌskoʊp/

  • 音频 (英国)

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名词

kaleidoscope (复数 kaleidoscopes)

1. 万花筒
2. (比喻义) 千变万化
   • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, 卷 1，页号s 34-35:

     Lady Etheringhame being now a constitutionalist, dined rather early: and Emily, her head like a kaleidoscope, full of colours, with not a little disdain, put on the blue silk she had thought bleu céleste, at least in the country.

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   • 1961 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The "Rheingold" goes via Cologne”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，页号 231:

     The rail journey from The Hook [Hook of Holland] to Basle is a scenic kaleidoscope, ranging from the flat terrain of the Netherlands to the high ranges of the Black Forest, from the straight Dutch waterways to the sinuous Rhine gorge, from the ocean-going shipping of canals to the busy inland traffic of the Rhine and from peaceful farmland to thriving centres of commerce.

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   • 2020 6月 17, David Clough, “Then and now: trains through Crewe”, 出自 Rail，页号 60:

     Another most notable change concerns rolling stock liveries. Back then, corporate Rail Blue was omnipresent, whereas now there is a kaleidoscope of colours and styles.

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衍生词

• kaleidoscopelike
• kaleidoscopic
• teleidoscope

延伸阅读

• kaleidoscope在维基共享资源上的资料。维基共享资源

动词

kaleidoscope (第三人称单数简单现在时 kaleidoscopes，现在分词 kaleidoscoping，一般过去时及过去分词 kaleidoscoped)

1. (不及物) 以变换的方式移动

来源

• “kaleidoscope”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.