解释
- n. 天文台；气象台；瞭望台
※ 提供单词"observatory"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
observatory 天文台，气象台
来自observe,观察，注视。用于指天文台，气象台等。
英文词源
- observatory (n.)
- "building for observing astronomical phenomena," 1670s (in reference to Greenwich), from French observatoire, from observer (v.); see observe.
例句和用法
- 1. The Royal Greenwich Observatory was founded to observe and catalogue the stars.
- 当初创立皇家格林尼治天文台就是为了观察星体并对其进行编目。
- 2. Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.
- 格林威治天文台的职员们每天对大钟检查两次.
- 3. Guy's house was close to the observatory.
- 盖伊的房子离天文台很近.
- 4. Few museums could rival the Old Royal Observatory at Greenwich for a grand day out.
- 若想找个地儿开心地逛一天，没有哪家博物馆能比得上格林尼治皇家天文台。
- 5. China boasts the world's earliest observatory, built in Nanking in 1385 in the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 A . D . - 1644 A . D . ), three centuries ahead of the Greenwich Observatory built in Britain in 1670.
- 中国建有世界上最早的气象台. 公元1385年,明朝在南京建立观象台, 比英国格林尼治观象台 ( 建于1670年 ) 早三个世纪.
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