Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?
某位哲學家曾拒絕使用伽利略的望遠鏡去觀察天空;到了19世紀40年代,有人硬把羅斯勛爵高倍望遠鏡觀測到的螺旋狀星云說成是磨鏡工留下的磨痕。難道反對伽利略的哲學家比詆毀羅斯勛爵造謠者應受到更大的譴責嗎?
新概念英語第四冊 Lesson 32 Galileo reborn

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philosopher [f?'lɑs?f?] 詞頻3 詞根: soph
n. 哲學家,哲人;思想家,學者;豁達的人;愛賣弄大道理者;
?? philo愛+soph智慧+er者→哲學家,思想家
"the Greek philosopher Aristotle"
希臘哲學家亞里士多德
近義:thinker, philosophe
telescope ['t?l?skop] 詞頻3 詞根: tele
n. 望遠鏡; vt.& vi. (使某物)變短(疊縮在一起);(使某物)疊縮,嵌入; vt. 壓縮某物使其少占空間或時間;
?? tele遠,傳送+scope看→看遠方→望遠鏡
"to look at the stars through a telescope"
用望遠鏡觀察星星
近義:abridge, abstract, shorten, summarize, vignette, brief
culpable ['k?lp?bl]
adj. 應受譴責的,應受處罰的,有罪的;
?? culp =fault,表示”錯,罪”#詞根助記:culp+able有…的
"The judge found the man culpable."
法官認為那個人有罪.
近義:guilty
look [l?k] 詞頻1
vt.& vi. 看,瞧; vi. 注意;面向;尋找;看起來好像; n. 看;(尤指吸引人的)相貌;眼神;樣子; int. (插話或喚起注意)喂,聽我說;
?? l(棍)+oo(雙眼)+k(開):掙開雙眼搜索棍- 看
"That uniform makes the guards look absurd."
警衛們穿著那種制服看起來怪模怪樣的。
近義:appear, seem, see, appearance, image, area
alleged [?'led?d]
adj. 聲稱的,所謂的;被斷言的;可疑的,靠不住的; v. 宣稱,斷言( allege的過去式和過去分詞);
"It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office."
他被指稱在任時收受賄賂。
近義:hypothetical, intended, assumed, phony, presumptive, pretended 反義:acknowledged, familiar

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