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双解例句
小知识
If you wanted to decide where to locate your car wash, you might locate a spot on a map with lots of traffic, a parking lot, and a ready source of water. Locate means to find or place.
If your mother can never locate her keys, it means she loses them all of the time and has to look all around the house before going out. If you move to a new place, usually for a job, you relocate. But if you decide to find a job that is located in your town, you call that staying local, which, like locate, derives from the Latin locus meaning “place.”
实用短语
常用短语
单词用法
这组词都表示“发现”。其区别是locate的意思是“探出”“判明”“查出”,强调找出某物的来源或处所,其侧重点在确定事物的空间位置;detect常用以表示有意图的、推理性的调查研究和做一些极其精确的观察后而“侦察出”“察觉”“发觉”等,它通常不用以表示偶然发现。locate,situate
这组词都有“在…设置”的意思。其区别是locate常用的意思是“确定某物的部位”;situate的意思是“坐落某处”。
同义词
occupy / squat / house / residence / plant / reside / take / settle / up / root / nest / camp
settle / seat / pinpoint / localize / place / post / establish / base / assign / collocate / set / fix / situate / deposit / ensconce / position
come / discern / down / reveal / find / across / unearth / uncover / espy / detect / discover / track / disclose / pinpoint / spot / rootout
同根词
词根:locate
adj.located处于,位于;坐落的
localized局部的;地区的;小范围的
localised限局性的,局部的
locative表示位置的;位置格的
n.location位置(形容词locational);地点;外景拍摄场地
locality所在;位置;地点
localization[计] 定位;局限;地方化
locator定位器,探测器
locating定位;定位查找
localisation本土化;定位
locative位置格
locater定位器(等于locator)
v.localized定位(localize的过去分词)
localised使地方化;定位;局限(localise的过去分词)
locating找出;安置;确定…的位置(locate的ing形式)
vt.localise使地方化;定位;集中