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One way to picture microscope: you put something tiny under the lens and it fills your whole field of view — details you could never see with the eye alone suddenly stand out. English then borrows that lens for situations: put a plan under the microscope and every small flaw becomes visible.
可以想成 microscope 是「把很小的東西放到鏡頭底下，它就佔滿了你整個視野」——肉眼永遠看不到的細節忽然全冒…更多收起
可以想成 microscope 是「把很小的東西放到鏡頭底下，它就佔滿了你整個視野」——肉眼永遠看不到的細節忽然全冒出來。英文接著把這面鏡頭借給各種情況：一份計畫被放到顯微鏡下，每一個小瑕疵都會現形。原始詞典資料3 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。
microscopenoun/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskəʊp/
- 1
An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
- That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
- Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
- 2
Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).
microscopeverb/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskəʊp/
- 1
To examine with a microscope, to put under a microscope (literally or figuratively).
- It has a strong germicidal action, as can be verified by staining and microscoping the pus, the characteristic micro-organisms disappearing rapidly under its use.
- Wright (1959), using the standard and less laborious technique of microscoping the centrifuged deposit of a sample of urine, found that 21.6% of males attending life insurance examinations had more than 10 red blood cells per high power field (rbc/hpf).
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。