| 单词 | equator |
| 释义 | e·qua·tor, Equator /ɪˈkweɪtə $ -ər/ noun the equator an imaginary line drawn around the middle of the Earth that is exactly the same distance from the North Pole and the South Pole 赤道on/at/near the equator a small village near the equator 赤道附近的小村庄 →4 See picture of 见图 GLOBE →5 see picture at 见图 earth1Examples from the Corpusequator• At the other end of the constellation is Beta, near Rigel and only 5 degrees south of the celestial equator.• With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weird stuff happening up here.• And here at the equator, we noted, it was 85 degrees, with cloudless sky and tropical breezes.• It is a calm, clear, beautiful day-the kind seen only at the equator.• The line on Mercury is fixed to its surface at the equator.• Born in the scalding heat of the equator, she had, after all, been named after snow.• The rest of the equator does not get quite as hot.• It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times.Origin equator (1300-1400) Medieval Latin aequator “equalizer”, from Latin aequare ( → EQUATE); because day and night are equal at the equatore·qua·tor nounChineseSyllable middle an the around imaginary Corpus drawn line |
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