1.(地球或天球的)赤道
2.(平分球形物体的面的)圆;(任何)大圆
1.the imaginary great circle around Earth that is the same distance from the North and South Poles and pides Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres
2.the imaginary great circle around an astronomical object that is everywhere the same distance from the Poles
3.a circle that pides a sphere or other surface into two equal parts
1.Collectivist societies tend to pop up in parts of the world, especially around the equator, with plenty of disease-causing microbes.
集体主义社会通常会在世界上某些地方，特别是在赤道周围出现。这些地方具有许多导致疾病出现的微生物。
2.Pollen equator of Chinese and Mongolian seabuckthorn is suborbicular and that of Russian seabuckthorn is ellipse.
中国沙棘和蒙古沙棘花粉赤道面为近圆形，俄罗斯沙棘赤道面为椭圆形；
3.The 'bulge' at the Equator had been shrinking by less than a millimetre a year, according to National Geographic.
美国国家地理学会的数据显示，赤道每年都在以不到一毫米的速度“萎缩”。
4.If you try to come up and over the top and hit above the equator, you'll simply drive the ball into the net.
如果你试著在顶端上越过和打在赤道上面，你将只是把球打进入网内。
5.The atmosphere would shift in a similar fashion, he said, becoming thicker at the poles and thinner at the equator.
他说，大气层也会同样变化，在两极越来越厚而在赤道则越来越薄。
6.The heat rises from the land and vibrates down from the sun due to the tropical location of Hawaii so near the equator.
由于夏威夷所处的热带位置邻近赤道，热量从陆地上升及从太阳下来。
7.And, given that the Equator is only a few hundred kilometres away, there is only the briefest of dawns between deep night and bright day.
赤道仅在几百公里以外，深夜和白天之间的黎明是最最短暂的。
8.Since the Earth's rotational axis is tilted, the Sun is directly over the equator just twice a year.
因为地球的自转轴是倾斜的，因此一年当中太阳光只有两次机会直射赤道。
9.It lies on the map like the top half of a broken cane, parallel with the Equator but a long, long way north.
它在地图上就象一根破烂手杖的上半节，和南面平行的赤道遥遥相望。
10.Those who survived on the land that remains above water will find what was once East is now North and close to the equator.
在澳大利亚高于海面的陆地上幸存下来的人们将会发现，，曾经的东方是现在的北方，并且地理位置上靠近了赤道。