查出東西在哪裡
方向反過來：不是替東西決定位置，而是位置已經定了，你去把它找出來。
pinpoint the location · verb · B2
to find out exactly where something or someone is.
找出…的位置
核心畫面
Picture a point on a map and the question that goes with it: where does this thing sit? English uses one verb for every side of that question — putting something at a chosen point, being at that point, working out which point something is at, and moving in to take up a point of your own.
可以想成：地圖上的一個點，以及跟著它來的那個問題——這樣東西在哪裡？英文用同一個動詞處理這個問題的每一面：把東西擺到…更多收起
可以想成：地圖上的一個點，以及跟著它來的那個問題——這樣東西在哪裡？英文用同一個動詞處理這個問題的每一面：把東西擺到選定的那一點、東西就在那一點上、查出它究竟在哪一點，以及自己搬過去佔住一個點。From the picture
到某地設點營業
同樣是取得一個位置，但主詞是自己：公司搬過去、在那裡落腳做生意。
set up shop (a place) · verb · B2
to move to a place and start a business there - used mostly in American English.
進駐；到…設點營業
Also in this word
situate, place · verb · B2
to put or build something in a certain place, after choosing that place carefully.
把…設在；設置於
be situated · verb · B2
to be in a certain place - used to say where a building, shop, or town is.
位於；座落於
原始詞典資料4 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。
locateverb/lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪt/
- 1
To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
- The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
- 2
To find out where something is located.
- I really can't locate the sever files.
- In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
- 3
To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
- The council must locate the new hospital.
- to locate a mining claim
- 4
To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.
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。