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单词 kaleidoscope
释义 ka·lei·do·scope
I. \kəˈlīdəˌskōp sometimes -lēd-\ noun
Etymology: Greek kalos beautiful + eidos form + English -scope — more at calli-, idol
1. : an instrument that contains loose fragments of colored glass confined between two flat plates and two plane mirrors placed at an angle of 60° so that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of symmetrical varicolored forms
2. : something resembling a kaleidoscope: as
 a. : a variegated changing pattern or scene
  < the lake a kaleidoscope of changing colors — Robert Gibbings >
 b. : a succession of changing phases or actions
  < reduce all experience to a shifting kaleidoscope of meaningless incidents — John Dewey >
  < her day … became a kaleidoscope of things embarked upon and left for other things — Adrian Bell >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
intransitive verb
: to appear as if in a kaleidoscope
 < pictures of the lights and the planes spinning and crashing … kaleidoscoped through his mind — Howard Hunt >
transitive verb
: to view as if in a kaleidoscope
 < poking … fun at our banalities and shortsightednesses as he kaleidoscopes them with the long view of man's cultural achievement — Henry Hewes >
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