equator• At the other end of the constellation is Beta, near Rigel and only 5 degreessouth of the celestialequator.• With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weirdstuff happening up here.• And here at the equator, we noted, it was 85 degrees, with cloudlesssky and tropicalbreezes.• 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 scaldingheat 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.
Originequator
(1300-1400)Medieval Latinaequator“equalizer”, from Latinaequare ( → EQUATE); because day and night are equal at the equator
VERB + EQUATOR | PREPOSITION | PHRASESVERB + EQUATOR➤cross穿過赤道➤straddle跨越赤道PREPOSITION➤around the equator在赤道周圍◇Rainforests occur around the equator.雨林出現在赤道周圍。➤at the equator在赤道◇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。➤close to the equator, near the equator接近赤道;離赤道不遠◇in an area near the equator赤道附近的一個地區➤on the equator在赤道上◇The lake lies exactly on the equator.這湖正好位於赤道上。PHRASES➤north of the equator, south of the equator赤道以北/以南◇The island is just 80 miles north of the equator.那個島在赤道以北僅 80 英里處。