单词 | telescoped |
例句 | She walks beside her father with her cane telescoped in one fist, her other hand on his rucksack, everything disconnected from logic, as in nightmares. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The fifth and sixth, containing the first-class and air-conditioned passengers, telescoped into each other, killing the passengers in their sleep. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The windows had inside shutters of slatted wood which telescoped into a narrow space on either side. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When a human being is fed upon and consumed by one of them, especially in Africa, the event is telescoped against horizons of space and time, and takes on a feeling of immense antiquity. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled a tool from her backpack, an arm-length pole that telescoped out almost to Tall/s height. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Over the next sixteen years, the Arcades Project telescoped into an expansive work about capitalism, European history, and the forces of urban life. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z Outside and indoors, time seems telescoped, one day merging with many. Poem of the week: The Man by Maitreyabandhu 2013-07-01T10:29:17Z “Time has rather telescoped us together,” Hitchcock adds. Exclusive world premiere of “Robyn Hitchcock” by Robyn Hitchcock 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Actually, it was rather a sweet moment, one that neatly telescoped time while animating Everetts past and present. TV review: The Hospital and Who Do You Think You Are? 2010-07-27T06:59:00Z The result, “Conical Intersect,” was a giant tunnel that telescoped down through the building, widening as it went. Back in the Bronx: Gordon Matta-Clark, Rogue Sculptor 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z At times the songs were telescoped down to five voices wordlessly harmonizing, or the sound of fingers snapping. Concert review: Rhye at Schubas 2013-04-12T06:14:00Z But in the opera it is all telescoped into a single scene: As soon as Bill learns of the money, they fight over it. Review: Great Expectations for a New Opera, Dashed 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z For our gang of ghouls, encounters with passing werewolves — whose full-moon preparations are ingeniously telescoped into a hilarious aside — are ultimately less problematic than figuring out how to look good when you have no reflection. Review: ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ a Vampire Comedy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Frequently, Case telescoped things down to just the sound of her voice, delivering drama by playing it small. Neko Case, Mavis Staples captivating at Hideout 2013-09-07T05:25:00Z As New York City Ballet’s “Nutcracker” began its annual run of performances there, the tree telescoped on cue, the seven-headed Mouse King was vanquished, snowflakes swirled, and flowers waltzed. Dance Review: ?George Balanchine?s The Nutcracker? at Lincoln Center 2011-11-27T22:38:29Z Her authenticity steadies the heartbeat of a film whose cuteness can sometimes grate, and whose telescoped view offers little sense of life beyond Buddy’s block. ‘Belfast’ Review: A Boy’s Life 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z An entire lifetime, in all its rushing and monotonous variety, is telescoped into a breathless 15 minutes in Samuel Beckett’s primal cry of a monologue, delivered by a disembodied mouth. 10 Monologues That Make Solo Music 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z LaTocha’s telescoped material history registers the onward march of human activity but also what existed long before. Her Art Reads the Land in Deep Time 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “So I drank more and read less and my world telescoped down to yours — sex, looks and money.” She Reported From the World’s Combat Zones, at the Cost of Her Life 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The dialogue, meanwhile, was pared away to such a degree that the ending was telescoped beyond dramatic comprehensibility: it wasn’t clear why Tony was shot, or who shot him. Review | Six concerts in search of a composer: D.C. fetes Bernstein centennial 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Apart from such telescoped stories, the other arena for brief wordplay in books is, of course, titles. Fiction in a flash 2012-10-08T15:17:42Z If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round. Harvey Weinstein’s rehab – just your basic $2,000-a-night sex offender programme 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z How to make something quintessentially American, Graham mused, without evoking “a mural in a Middle Western railway station”? How to convey “gentleness without sentimentality” and “the simplicities of a telescoped day,” from morning to nightfall? Martha Graham Studio Celebrates ‘Appalachian Spring’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The first 1,700 years of London's history are telescoped into just over 50 pages, while the last 200 years get something like a page each. A People's History of London by John Rees and Lindsey German – review 2012-06-22T21:55:20Z The distance between their world and that of geopolitics has telescoped, and teachers have struggled to assuage fears that this war might affect them all. In European Classrooms, Questions About a War So Close to Home 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped. Burkina Faso coup: Return of the military strongmen to West Africa 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z But despite its merits, this wry look at several beleaguered senior citizens living in the world’s largest retirement community — Central Florida’s the Villages — is often undercut by this telescoped approach. Review: 'Some Kind of Heaven' skims the surface of life inside retirement mecca the Villages 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z The craft distillers’ 30-year regulatory relief effort telescoped down to three months when, in June, craft distillers, within California, were allowed to sell direct to the public with third-party delivery. California craft distillers' spirits lifted for now with relaxed regulations 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z There were two wheels at one end and a handle that telescoped out from the base at the other. Perspective | Big Apple, big pain: The wrong shoes and the wrong bag in an unforgiving city 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z For Democrats, every waking moment has telescoped down to one thing: gaining control of the House in November. The Trump Paradox 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z At the Sirius Town Hall, the old “Mike and the Mad Dog” jingle plays, and fans in throwback Mets jerseys gather, and time has been telescoped. Mike Francesa and Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo, sports-radio pioneers, grade their ESPN moment 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z While the big-picture “Constellations” ponders the randomness and cosmological serendipity of romance, and “The Big Meal” cycles through several generations of family life, “Bright Half Life” is a more modest, telescoped dual portrait. Love at the speed of light: ‘Bright Half Life’ traces interracial union’s arc in 1 act 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But Prince was so flat-out amazing that everything telescoped into him, a tiny figure in Spanish ruffles. Prince: memories of U 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z One of the defining features of the crocodile’s singularly unappealing face is its eyes, which are widely spaced and exceedingly protruding—or telescoped. Secrets of the 13 Million Year-Old Crocodile 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z They noted that this fossil had primitive traits, such as a monkey-size brain, small teeth with sharp cusps, and eye sockets that telescoped out, similar to those of a gibbon. Mother of all apes—including humans—may have been surprisingly small 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z However the telescoped post-season schedule means this appeal likely will be decided quickly. Chase Utley suspended two games by MLB for ‘illegal slide’ that broke Ruben Tejada’s leg 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z During rehearsals Friday at Radio City Music Hall, 33 dancers from “An American in Paris” spent hours perfecting their complex and telescoped appearance. Sunday’s Tony telecast will feature stars, songs and a stunt 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z During rehearsals Friday at Radio City Music Hall, 33 dancers from "An American in Paris" spent hours perfecting their complex and telescoped appearance. Sunday's Tony telecast will feature stars, songs and a stunt 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z But if spring is shortened, then that process will be telescoped into a few miserable weeks for allergy sufferers. Thanks to the Polar Vortex, Brace Yourself for a Miserable Allergy Season 2014-03-26T09:45:26Z The salient thing about them was not that they caught fish, but that they telescoped. Jack A. Kinzler, 1920-2014: Jack Kinzler, Skylab’s Savior, Dies at 94 2014-03-15T03:17:13Z A five-year plan to replace the wiring and pipes was telescoped into 12 months and today almost every alley and road in the district has been dug up again. Postcard from Cuba 2013-08-29T07:19:43Z The mitral and tricuspid valves are formed by the shortening of the auricular canal which becomes telescoped into the ventricle, and the cusps are the remnants of this telescoping process. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Online, that process is telescoped and front-loaded, packaged into a neat little digital profile, usually with an equally artificial video attached. Does Online Dating Make It Harder to Find 'The One'? 2012-02-07T12:06:21Z So Browning's characters all have the Browning abundance of telescoped metaphor. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Every one who has ever set up a tripod knows that its loosely hinged legs can be elongated or telescoped by a system of slides and screws. Life's Minor Collisions 2011-11-03T02:00:17.547Z "Suppose two such globes of energy, covered with dust, were to be telescoped or attached together, would you marvel at the fact?" Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z We made a long series of improbably good guesses, and thus telescoped a century of work into a decade. Sentiment, Inc. 2011-10-09T02:00:23.850Z Indeed, everything considered, it speaks a lot for her construction that she simply telescoped instead of resolving into cosmic star-dust. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Time is sped up in the movie, so events that took weeks to unfold are telescoped into days or hours. Film "Too Big To Fail" is a financial horror show 2011-05-12T18:28:07Z If your reply did not give satisfaction, you were promptly "bonneted," and, in Eton phraseology, your new "topper" telescoped over your nose. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z B B, telescoped energy spheres covered with space dirt, inclosing space between. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z All telescoped together in a rapid rush, marked him, vanished, yet left behind them something that was real. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Technology has expanded our access to memory to near-infinite proportions, and telescoped time. Letter From Europe: A New Generation Takes Leadership From the Baby Boomers 2010-10-08T11:41:00Z The events telescoped into a single year in “Stand and Deliver” unfolded over a much longer time. Jaime Escalante, Inspiration for a Movie, Dies at 79 2010-04-01T03:05:00Z At the bottom of the ravine which the trestle had spanned lay an indiscriminate heap of splintered and telescoped coaches which quite hid from view the locomotive lying beneath. The Cottage of Delight A Novel It is club-shaped, covered with a sticky secretion, and based upon a very narrow root, which is composed of extremely elastic fibres and telescoped over the much elongated, style-shaped, copular piece of the hyoid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The car crashed into the box car, splintered it, turned it, shoved it, and thrust it over the fantail into the water; the flat car, telescoped into it, was dragged after. The Indian Drum Since our last session however The Brain has again telescoped two years of mental development into as many days in its stupendous intellectual growth. The Brain Her father was dozing uncomfortably, with his two lower chins telescoped into his billowing chest; Mrs. Banniman complained of the heat and the glare, and predicted a headache for herself. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure As the mechanism telescoped back into place, he gunned his engine, and the beetle shot backward and spun round to face the oncoming noise. World of the Drone I could not dodge, as I was sitting down, but felt like drawing in my back-bone until it telescoped. From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw Instantly, the hundreds of dangling arms telescoped out, each to a button bank where a moment before a prolat had labored. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 Being higher built, Blackwings shot right over the top of the yard engine, turned end for end, and lay with her pilot under the mail car, which was telescoped into the express car. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike Smith telescoped the two leads together and began turning the collar on the female plug. Hanging by a Thread Her left hand made precisely the same gesture with each flower-pot she took from the line in which they lay telescoped together. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The soldier telescoped his eyes with his hands and looked again. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters But he persisted, and with a protesting rasp the lid was telescoped inward, breaking the lock. The Martian Cabal But it was noticeable that the legs were in some curious manner telescoped up out of sight, once Jolly was seated. The Very Small Person Its tenuous body telescoped together, becoming thinner and thinner in the process, until on the floor there lay the lifeless body of a snake-like creature not more than six inches in length! The Heads of Apex This crystal nucleus clouded murkily, and the lance-like arm telescoped back into the faceted bulk. Devil Crystals of Arret In Helen Keller's case the transformation of months was telescoped into minutes. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Only a false perspective has so telescoped these years together as to make them seem a short and rapid period of decline, filled up with wars, massacres and human misery. Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work The phenomenon was of common occurrence,—they were always telescoped then. The Very Small Person But the Fitzgerald Contraction had telescoped those nine years into just a few months, for the people of the Valhalla. Starman's Quest With that she telescoped briskly, till we saw only a hand waving farewell. Humorous Ghost Stories She carried in one hand a fishing-rod which had been telescoped till it was no bigger than a cane; in the other she carried a small fishing-basket. Northern Lights Perhaps she too was troubled by the sense that here time was subtly telescoped, that past and present might be meeting. The Defiant Agents The telescoped legs came to view jerkily, but with haste. The Very Small Person "Lima" Bean's ribs were telescoped, and there wasn't a good shin in the house. At Good Old Siwash As she reached the plane a silver ladder telescoped down to her from below the door. The Night of the Long Knives The short, telescoped fishing-rod she carried swung round her head and completed its next half-circle at the head of the reptile, even as it was about to strike. Northern Lights When the saint's name begins with a consonant, we get, instead of aphesis, a telescoped pronunciation, e.g. The Romance of Names As Whiting phrases it, he has "telescoped" the sonata form. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Time has been obliterated in the last four years; space and centuries telescoped; the sufferings of a century compressed into a few cycles of months. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The hour of interval was telescoped in your waking consciousness to a few seconds. The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III. Then with frantic haste he disconnected his instrument, telescoped his extension cane, and gathered up the different articles and thrust them into his pockets. The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol In a horrible minute the engine of the express had telescoped the standing train, and the shrieks of the mangled passengers mingled with the hissing escape of steam. Pushing to the Front In a condensed and telescoped manner, of course, for what took the race a million years may be recapitulated by the individual in a week! The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told The engine and a few cars went right on and left us; the centre part rushed down the hill, our section followed and crashed into it, and some seven or eight cars were completely telescoped. Ranching, Sport and Travel Bump! as I did so I almost telescoped with Sir Lionel who had retrieved his boots, probably from my doormat. Set in Silver Time had telescoped and he was back again in the early eighties. The Lost Valley As with a drowning man, the past is telescoped into a minute, and the stages are all here at once in my mind. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O When the shield was advanced the nuts on the screw rods were loosened and the sections of the hoods were telescoped on to the shield. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 Once we almost telescoped, and I jumped over him—his head must have passed within fifty centimeters of my wheels. Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air Already a sequence of wild scenes telescoped themselves along the White Way, but the evening was yet young and would ripen toward fulfilment as the hours progressed. Destiny Thought is rushed upon thought and sentence telescoped into sentence. The Young Priest's Keepsake Only don't blame me if you come back here some day all telescoped up amidships. One Third Off It possesses a Gothic cathedral with an apse at either end, that looks as if two churches had collided and telescoped each other. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 The epic is telescoped into the sonnet, and the sonnet is compressed into quatrains or Tabbs of poetry, and couplets are signed as masterpieces. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy His silk hat had been telescoped in the process of smacking a Frenchman's eye. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Compared, or contrasted, with a nearby and characteristic mountain of the range, it was as a lady's finger to a telescoped giant's thumb. Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds If I had hit him, I'd have telescoped him, for I was coming down from above, all holds free, with several other bulls one jump behind and reaching for me. The Road Not even the hallowed sanctuary of the "Law's" guardians was held sacred, for a missile telescoped a policeman's helmet—which, happily, was off its head at the moment. The Siege of Kimberley In any event the boat would be telescoped down to the cockpit and sink at the edge of the log field. Kindred of the Dust Omar was a great man and the Mosque was a great work, and the two were telescoped together by the excellent common sense of vulgar tradition. The New Jerusalem Squinting back down the telescoped years as he had once through bombsights to that recently freed city, after the war & burnt out trams to how they first met. Unmanned "See those transits?" inquired Blaisdell, pointing to two of the telescoped and compassed instruments used by surveyors in running courses. The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest Repeated perpendicular concussions had, I confidently believed, telescoped my spinal vertebrae into each other, so that nothing short of a surgical operation would ever restore them to their original positions. Tent Life in Siberia And there a chain of lamp-lit carriage windows telescoped swiftly as it came towards them, and the red and yellow lights of an engine grew larger and larger, rushing down upon them. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Let us hope we shall not be telescoped on the road, for among the passengers is one of the chief functionaries of the company in the person of Faruskiar. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent The sixty days of incessant travel through the white wilderness suddenly telescoped, and had no existence in time. Burning Daylight And there a chain of lamp-lit carriage-windows telescoped swiftly as it came towards them, and the red and yellow lights of an engine grew larger and larger, rushing down upon them. The Door in the Wall and Other Stories Paris closed up, telescoped its panorama, became a mere blur, a smoky smudge. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama We also pointed out that he had escaped being telescoped or drowned by the merest hair's-breadth. The Forest With an acrobat's stride he reached the stage, telescoped fiddle and bow to normal proportions, and after a lightning nod to the chef d'orchestre, played the Marseillaise. The Mountebank It was imbecile not to remember the name of your own hotel—even when your own particular material and immaterial cosmos had been telescoped like a toy train in the last three hours. Young People's Pride A Novel There she is—just a bag, telescoped and hung on a frame above the window. Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures The meaning has to be telescoped in such a way as to permit the reader to judge how much weight to give to the news. Public Opinion Buddy's face had been hammered to a pulp, but Gray was groaning; he could breathe only from the top of his lungs, and the bones of his left hand had been telescoped. Flowing Gold His eyes stuck out, and his teeth rattled, and every time the horse came down on his feet dad seemed to get shorter, as though his spine was being telescoped up into his hat. Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys Then he slowly telescoped his tall frame into an armchair, and sank down, a look of comic despair settling upon his face. The Making of an American The altered scale of distance confused him; the road had telescoped absurdly; the hayfields were so small. A Prisoner in Fairyland How much more can be expected of ten thousand raw troops telescoped by twenty-five thousand veterans? The Campaign of Chancellorsville They were nothing but a heap of debris,—telescoped into one another in a state of apparently inextricable confusion. The Beetle It was an Oriental trick knife in which the blade telescoped into the handle. The Exploits of Elaine About where Berth Number Ten should have been, the timbers had telescoped upward, leaving an open space four or five feet high. Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police They chopped the pine bark, and as they did so the tree telescoped itself to the sky where the five other Meamei were, whom they now joined, and with whom they have remained ever since. The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia “I invited him, and he said, ‘No, thank you’ so quick that the words was all telescoped together. Cap'n Warren's Wards The empty train began backing in, stopped, and telescoped with a series of little clattering bangs, backed on again, and subsided to rest. Saint's Progress Also, by a telescoped process, words come in time to produce directly the effects which would have been produced by the images with which they were associated. The Analysis of Mind I telescoped my toilet and came rushing round to you. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story The doctor laughed, telescoped his pencil and stood up. Secret Places of the Heart In this inexpressible ceremony the name of every dish went hurtling into the next, telescoped to shapelessness. Lin McLean Those behind urged on, and the column, from gutter to gutter, telescoped upon itself. The Iron Heel It is true that this process may be telescoped through the operation of the word-habit. The Analysis of Mind With the swiftness and wide-reaching of multitudinous thought Charles Butler’s whole life was telescoped upon his vision. Martin Eden I was on my feet again and at it, and presently I lunged out and felt such a jar in my arm that I thought it was telescoped. Joe Wilson and His Mates The words have been used in an environment which produced certain emotions; by a telescoped process, the words alone are now capable of producing similar emotions. The Analysis of Mind When they operate without the medium of images, this seems to be a telescoped process. The Analysis of Mind |
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