英语单词 | situate |
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英美音标 | 英 ['sɪtʃueɪt] 美 ['sɪtʃueɪt] |
中文释义 | vt. 位于; 坐落在 adj. 位于 ... 的; 坐落在 ... 的 |
英语例句 | (1) Situate close to Melbourne, the premium Australian Wine Regions of the YarraValley &offer spectacular scenery, world-renowned wine and gourmet for you. |
中文例句 | (1) 它位于墨尔本附近,除了世界文明的红酒,还有壮观的美景,让人嘴馋的美食。 |
vocabulary简明 | When you situate something, you figure out where it should go or exactly where it is. You might, for example, use a compass to situate the hunting camp you're building on your grandfather's land. |
vocabulary扩展 | Your brother might decide to situate his drums in a far corner of the basement, where his banging is less likely to disturb the household. A land surveyor might use a GPS or satellite data to situate the boundaries of a particular property. In the 1530's, situate literally meant "to give a site to," from the Medieval Latin situare, "to place or locate," with the Latin root word situs, "place or position." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词](尤指为了更好地理解某事)把…放在(特殊的环境中),把…跟(具体情境)联系 If you situate something such as an idea or fact in a particular context, you relate it to that context, especially in order to understand it better. [V n adv/prep] [FORMAL 正式]
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