an imaginary line around the earth at an equal distance from the North and South Poles 赤道 The island is twenty degrees south of the equator. 該島位於赤道以南二十度。
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyb2The island is just 80 miles north of the equator. 那個島在赤道以北僅 80 英裏處。 The lake lies exactly on the equator. 這湖正好位於赤道上。 The sun heats the sea more at the equator than at the poles. 太陽使赤道附近的海水溫度高於極地附近的水溫。 in an area near the equator 赤道附近的一個地區
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + equator- cross
- straddle
- around the equator
- at the equator
- close to the equator
- …
- north of the equator
- south of the equator
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis ‘circle equalizing day and night’, from Latin aequare ‘make equal’, from aequus ‘even, level, equal’.