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Kaleidoscopic describes scenes, colours, or patterns that keep changing, often quickly, and in many small pieces — the way the picture in a kaleidoscope jumps when you turn the tube. The heart of the word is the changing, not merely “having lots of colour.” A grey street in rain is not kaleidoscopic; a festival crowd, a city’s night lights, or a memory that comes in flashes of different moments can be. Writers like the word because it lets them pile up impressions without lining them up in a neat list. It is a little literary: you will hear it in reviews and stories more than in a shop. If nothing is shifting, colourful is the simpler, truer word.
萬花筒般的（重點是畫面一直在變，不單是「很彩色」）
組成kaleidoscope + -ic (“like that”). A kaleidoscope was named from Greek pieces: kalos (beautiful) + eidos (form, shape) + a “looking” ending.
同家族的字
- kaleidoscopethe noun; this adjective is simply kaleidoscope plus -ic
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
kaleidoscopicadj/kəˌlaɪdəˈskɒpɪk/
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Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.
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Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.
- Like scholars picking over the childhood of Buddha, we want to understand how Lennon became the man he did, but there’s also a purity to this portrayal because it presents Lennon before the prism of fame split him into his kaleidoscopic multitude of facets that allowed artists to imprint their own ideas of what John Lennon was or should have been.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。