【locate音标】 英[ləʊˈkeɪt] 美[ˈloʊkeɪt]
【单词释义】 locate是什么意思：
v.定位；确定…的位置；说出来源；把…安置在
[单词分级] 大学英语四级词汇
[第三人称单数] locates
[单词现在分词] locating
[单词过去式] located
[单词过去分词] located
【关联词/派生词】
location n.位置，场所
locality n.地方，地点；地区
locale n.（事情发生的）地点，现场
locally adv.局部地；在本地
local adj.当地的，本地的 n.当地人
【locate形近词/近似词】
suffocate v（使）窒息而死；（使）闷死；（使）呼吸困难；憋气
advocate v. 拥护;支持;提倡 n.拥护者;支持者
allocate v. 分配
dislocate vt.使脱臼；使关节脱位；使混乱
equivocate v.含糊其辞，支吾，搪塞
reciprocate vt.回应；回报；互换，互给；往复运动
【单词例句】
◇ The name Holland only refers to two of the country's 12 provinces, North-Holland, where Amsterdam is located, and South-Holland, the home of Rotterdam and The Hague. However, the nickname is often used to describe the entire country, officially called the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
“荷兰”这个名字仅指该国12个省中的两个省，即阿姆斯特丹所在的“北荷兰省”，以及鹿特丹和海牙所在的“南荷兰省”。 然而，这一名称却经常被用来代指整个国家。荷兰的官方全称为尼德兰王国。
---- Netherlands doesn't want you to call it Holland anymore
◇ "GJ 357 d is located within the outer edge of its star's habitable zone, where it receives about the same amount of stellar energy from its star as Mars does from the Sun," said Diana Kossakowski, study co-author at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.
“GJ 357 d位于其恒星宜居带的外边缘，它从恒星接收到的能量与火星从太阳接收到的能量差不多，”马克斯普朗克天文研究所的研究合著者戴安娜·科萨科夫斯基说。
---- NASA finds potentially habitable super-Earth
◇ At the moment, we need more research to fully understand the causes of acne. Oil glands (sebaceous glands), located in the skin at the base of the hair follicle, excrete oil (sebum) to lubricate the surface of the skin and hair. All parts of the body contain sebaceous glands, except the palms and soles of the feet.
眼下，我们需要更多研究来充分理解痘痘的成因。皮肤毛囊底部的皮脂腺分泌出油脂来润滑皮肤和头发表面。身体的所有部位都分布有皮脂腺，手掌和脚底除外。
---- Should we be popping pimples?
◇ Two satellites,the American Compton gamma-ray observatory and the Italian-Dutch Bepposax satellite,have now been able to locate the precise direction of gamma-ray bursts within seconds of them occurring.
美国康普顿伽马卫星天文台的两颗卫星和意大利比珀撒克斯公爵的卫星将在第二次伽马射线发生爆炸的方向准确地登陆。
---- The Big Bang