observatory
/əbˈzɜːvətri/ (bre, ipa) · /əbˈzɜːrvətɔːri/ (ame, ipa) · /əb-ˈzər-və-ˌtȯr-ē/ (ame, mw)
observatory — 名詞
1. a place, often on a hill or mountain, where scientists use telescopes and other
天文台
觀測天體或氣象的科學設施
a place, often on a hill or mountain, where scientists use telescopes and other instruments to study the stars, the planets, or weather patterns.
Visitors to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich can stand on the prime meridian line.
到格林威治皇家天文台參觀的人，可以站在本初子午線上。
proper-noun pattern: the [Name] Observatory
The new observatory sits on top of Mauna Kea, far above the clouds.
新的天文台位於毛納基火山頂，遠在雲層之上。
typical location: on top of / high on a mountain
Dr. Lin spent every clear night at the observatory, photographing distant galaxies.
林博士每個晴朗的夜晚都待在天文台，拍攝遙遠的星系。
Heavy clouds forced the observatory to close its main telescope for the week.
厚重的雲層迫使天文台這一週關閉了主望遠鏡。
Staff at the weather observatory recorded the strongest winds in fifty years.
氣象觀測站的工作人員記錄到五十年來最強的風速。
- planetarium
a related building, but for projecting images of the night sky onto a dome — not for real telescopic observation
- telescope station
informal descriptive phrase; 'observatory' is the standard term
文法句型
the + Observatory (in proper names)
用法筆記
Countable; almost always used with 'the'. In proper names, capitalised as 'Observatory' (the Royal Observatory, the Paris Observatory). The astronomical sense is most common; weather and solar observatories are also normal collocations.