Equator
[ɪ'kweɪtə] or [ɪ'kwetɚ]
解释:
(noun.) an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles; 'the equator is the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres'.
(noun.) a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts.
珍妮整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.
(n.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line.
整理:默尔
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Equinoctial, equinoctial line, celestial equator.[2]. Terrestrial equator.
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娱乐性解释：
An imaginary line around the earth. Recently held by J.P. Morgan.
格伦达整理
例句:
- Great importance has been attached to this variation in the inclination of the equator to the orbit by Dr. Croll in his book _Climate and Time_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- As most people know, the change in the seasons is due to the fact that the equator of the earth is inclined at an angle to the plane of its orbit. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- On its way west in the Pacific the Beagle spent a month at the Galapagos Archipelago, which lies under the equator five or six hundred miles from the mainland. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Differences of temperature and density of the parts of the original mass account for the eccentricity of orbits, and deviations fro m the plane of the equator. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Glaciers spread from the poles towards the equator, until England to the Thames was covered in ice. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- A large body of water is strongly heated at the equator, and then moves away, carrying heat with it to distant regions, such as England and Norway. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Mutual interference in the particles outside the mass of the sun prevents all accumulation except in one plane and that takes the f orm of a thin disk continuous with the sun's equator. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The sun would always be overhead at the equator, and the day and night would each be exactly twelve hours long throughout the year everywhere. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- If the earth stood up straight in its orbit, so that its equator was in the plane of its orbit, there would be no change in the seasons at all. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Galapagos Archipelago, situated under the equator, lies at a distance of between 500 and 600 miles from the shores of South America. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- There is no distinction between the equator and the ecliptic. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The air under the equator and between the tropics being constantly heated and rarefied by the sun, rises. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- In the Cordillera of South America, nearly under the equator, glaciers once extended far below their present level. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The province of Para, south of the equator, in Brazil, furnishes the largest part and best quality of gum. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
整理:露丝