observatory
英 [əbˈzɜːvətri]
美 [əbˈzɜːrvətɔːri]
n. 天文台; 天文观测站; 气象台
Collins.1 / BNC.13051 / COCA.7738
牛津词典
noun
- 天文台；天文观测站；气象台
a special building from which scientists watch the stars, the weather, etc.
柯林斯词典
- 天文台；观象台；天文观测站
Anobservatoryis a building with a large telescope from which scientists study things such as the planets by watching them.
英英释义
noun
- a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings
- a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena
双语例句
- Hubble watched the night sky with instruments at the university's Yerkes Observatory.
哈勃在大学的耶基斯天文台用仪器观察夜空。 - Hubble left the Mount Wilson Observatory during World War Two.
哈勃于二战中离开威尔逊山天文台的职位。 - 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。 - So researchers used sensitive instruments at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
因此研究人员在夏威夷凯克天文台用一些灵敏的仪器来寻找红矮星。 - Started work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California.
开始了他在位于加利福尼亚的威尔逊山天文台的工作。 - 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。 - They used a telescope at Mount Palomar Observatory near Pasadena.
他们在靠近帕萨迪纳的帕洛慕山天文台使用了一台望远镜。 - The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra's science and flight operations from Cambridge, Mass.
马萨诸塞州坎布里奇（Cambridge）的史密松天体物理天文台控制着钱德拉的科研和飞行。 - Those who heard about the amateur prediction by the Haicheng Observatory also had a good reason to evacuate.
听到了海城地震观测站（群测点）做出的业余预测意见的人，也有撤离的好理由。 - They visited the observatory yesterday.
他们昨天参观了天文台。