- 1等同、把……與……畫上等號
To equate two things is to treat them as the same, or as tightly linked — often in your mind, not in the real world. The usual shape is equate A with B: “Don’t equate money with happiness.” The speaker is often pushing back: those two things are not as close as someone thinks. It is common in essays and serious talk; in very simple speech you might say “that doesn’t mean the same as.” Though actually the word also lives in maths class, with a slightly different job: you equate two sides of an equation, you make them equal on paper. That use is colder and more exact. The everyday use is almost never “these two things really are identical”; it is “someone is putting them in the same box.”
From the word’s history
From Latin aequātus, past participle of aequō 'to make equal'.
源自拉丁文 aequātus，來自 aequō「使相等」。
組成From Middle English equaten, from Latin aequātus, the form of aequō (“to make even or equal”) that already means “made equal,” plus the English verb ending -ate.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
equateverb/ɪˈkweɪt/
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To consider equal or equivalent (to or with).
- Coordinate term: correspond
- 2
mathematicssciencesTo set as equal.
- Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned.
equatenoun/ɪˈkweɪt/
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computingengineeringmathematicsA statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
- The first section of the program includes the system equates.
- The following equates define the stats byte […]
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