kaleidoscope

英 [kə'laɪdəskəʊp] 美 [kə'laɪdəskoʊp]

• n. 万花筒；千变万化

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 万花筒
2. 千变万化，瞬息万变
3. 万花筒般千变万化的情景
4. 万花筒式技巧摄影法
5. 千变万化的情景

v. 动词

1. 从万花筒里看

英英释义

Noun:

1. a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes

2. an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. A kaleidoscope is an optical toy.
   万花筒是一种光学玩具。
2. The child's wonder at the kaleidoscope never ended.
   那孩子对万花筒惊讶不已。
3. At sunset the sky became a kaleidoscope of colors.
   夕阳西下时，天空的颜色千变万化。
4. He swiftly dismissed the kaleidoscope of memory, oppressed by the urgent need of the present.
   眼前有急于要办的事逼迫着他，他一下子打消了记忆中的那些千变万化的情景。

经典引文

• The word challenging drops into the kaleidoscope of phrases he's tumbling around.

  出自： K. Waterhouse

• He was no longer the centre of a flashing kaleidoscope of the clever, the beautiful, the worldly.

  出自： J. Wain