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.该岛位于赤道以南20度。
Extra Examples- The island is just 80 miles north of the equator.那个岛在赤道以北仅 80 英里处。
- The lake lies exactly on the equator.这湖正好位于赤道上。
- The sun heats the sea more at the equator than at the poles.太阳使赤道附近的海水温度高于极地附近的水温。
- in an area near the equator赤道附近的一个地区
Topics Geographyb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + equatorpreposition- around the equator
- at the equator
- close to the equator
- …
phrases- north of the equator
- south of the equator
See full entry 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’.