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单词 opera glasses
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Definition of opera glasses in English:

opera glasses

plural noun
  • Small binoculars for use at the opera or theatre.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Well, I know for a fact that this is untrue: the old girl merely sent over an old wig and a pair of inflatable waterwings and demanded that all opera glasses were removed from the auditorium.
    • I emerged a minute later with a pair of binoculars and a pair of opera glasses.
    • Petzval also perfected the telescope and designed the opera glasses.
    • With good eyesight - though opera glasses would help - the sign can be made out from pretty much any of the 1,130 seats and the standing room at the back of the orchestra.
    • Even though you are seeing a bunch of toys through plastic opera glasses and listening to puppet-master Weinstein do his full range of daft voices, this dramatic world begins to win you over.
    • Sometimes, when I had to be content with a seat at the back of the lecture theatre, I used a pair of opera glasses to get at least a glimpse of the speaker.
    • From the isolated vantage point of his room he uses an old pair of opera glasses to spy on a young woman across the street.
    • There they found Morgan Murphy, a reserve catcher who rarely did any catching, sitting with a telegraph instrument, along with a pair of strong opera glasses that completed his equipment.
    • But the North's culture vultures can leave the opera glasses at home.
    • Galileo's telescope was similar to a pair of opera glasses in that it used an arrangement of glass lenses to magnify objects.
    • Or - since both movies are based on short stories by Tagore - did Tagore like to put opera glasses in his heroines' hands?
    • Audiences were advised to bring opera glasses to view the canvas, surveying the painting as if searching a vista.
    • Laurie just hands her the pair of opera glasses.
    • Some even used opera glasses, to enhance the illusion that they were examining the details of a living world.
    • The image of ladies and soft gentlemen sitting under parasols trading opera glasses back and forth all the better to see men die always leaves me nauseous.
    • Along with a ballpoint and opera glasses, they have become standard equipment for dance-going.
    • People brought binoculars and opera glasses to get a better look.
    • It didn't attract any Christian protests although there were sometimes unseemly tussles in the stalls over opera glasses.
    • How much longer will it take him to put his opera glasses in the case?
    • From the early 1880s so-called ‘detective’ cameras were disguised as or hidden in parcels, opera glasses, bags, hats, walking-stick handles and many other forms.
 
 

Definition of opera glasses in US English:

opera glasses

(also opera glass)
plural nounˈɑp(ə)rə ˌɡlæsəzˈäp(ə)rə ˌɡlasəz
  • Small binoculars for use at the opera or theater.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • People brought binoculars and opera glasses to get a better look.
    • I emerged a minute later with a pair of binoculars and a pair of opera glasses.
    • Sometimes, when I had to be content with a seat at the back of the lecture theatre, I used a pair of opera glasses to get at least a glimpse of the speaker.
    • Even though you are seeing a bunch of toys through plastic opera glasses and listening to puppet-master Weinstein do his full range of daft voices, this dramatic world begins to win you over.
    • From the isolated vantage point of his room he uses an old pair of opera glasses to spy on a young woman across the street.
    • Audiences were advised to bring opera glasses to view the canvas, surveying the painting as if searching a vista.
    • Petzval also perfected the telescope and designed the opera glasses.
    • It didn't attract any Christian protests although there were sometimes unseemly tussles in the stalls over opera glasses.
    • Galileo's telescope was similar to a pair of opera glasses in that it used an arrangement of glass lenses to magnify objects.
    • Or - since both movies are based on short stories by Tagore - did Tagore like to put opera glasses in his heroines' hands?
    • Along with a ballpoint and opera glasses, they have become standard equipment for dance-going.
    • Some even used opera glasses, to enhance the illusion that they were examining the details of a living world.
    • From the early 1880s so-called ‘detective’ cameras were disguised as or hidden in parcels, opera glasses, bags, hats, walking-stick handles and many other forms.
    • There they found Morgan Murphy, a reserve catcher who rarely did any catching, sitting with a telegraph instrument, along with a pair of strong opera glasses that completed his equipment.
    • Laurie just hands her the pair of opera glasses.
    • But the North's culture vultures can leave the opera glasses at home.
    • How much longer will it take him to put his opera glasses in the case?
    • Well, I know for a fact that this is untrue: the old girl merely sent over an old wig and a pair of inflatable waterwings and demanded that all opera glasses were removed from the auditorium.
    • The image of ladies and soft gentlemen sitting under parasols trading opera glasses back and forth all the better to see men die always leaves me nauseous.
    • With good eyesight - though opera glasses would help - the sign can be made out from pretty much any of the 1,130 seats and the standing room at the back of the orchestra.
 
 
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