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Picture yourself looking down at a map: not just the names, but where everything sits in relation to everything else — this river runs between those two mountains, that city is on the coast. The word is about that arrangement in space, and about the study of it. Once you have the map-view in your head, it works on a whole planet or on one office building.
可以想成你正低頭看一張地圖：重點不在名字，而在誰在誰旁邊、誰隔著什麼——這條河從兩座山之間穿過，那座城市靠著海。這個…更多收起
可以想成你正低頭看一張地圖：重點不在名字，而在誰在誰旁邊、誰隔著什麼——這條河從兩座山之間穿過，那座城市靠著海。這個字講的就是「東西在空間裡怎麼擺」，以及研究這件事的學問。只要腦中有了這種俯瞰的視角，它可以套在整顆星球上，也可以套在一棟辦公大樓裡。原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
geographynoun/dʒiˈɒɡɹəfi/
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The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
- Some amount of basic geography is part of any good curriculum for primary and secondary education.
- These days, instead of going off behind the bike shed during recess to learn about sex, kids need to sneak behind the bike shed to do a little bit of closeted geography or closeted Latin.
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archaicAn atlas or gazetteer.
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archaicA description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography.
- Geographie is (according to Ptolomei) an imitation of the picture of the vvhole Earth. […] VVe take not the Earth ſimply in its ovvn nature as it is an element, for ſo it belongeth to Philoſophy, but for the terreſtrial Globe, ſo it is the ſubiect of Geographie, and is defined to bee a Sphericall body, proportionably compoſed of earth, and vvater.
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Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
- The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.
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Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
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astronomynatural-sciencesSimilar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
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The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
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The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
- The actual geography of the murderous mind is still a mystery.
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businessmarketingA territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
- We currently operate only in EU countries but we're building prototype services for various geographies.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。