核心畫面
You can hold location as the simple idea of where a thing sits in the world — a point you could put your finger on a map, defined by what stands around it. Everything else is just this same 'where' looked at more or less precisely, or used for a special purpose.
可以想成一個東西「在世界上的哪個位置」——一個你能在地圖上用手指點出來的點，靠它周圍有什麼來界定。location …更多收起
可以想成一個東西「在世界上的哪個位置」——一個你能在地圖上用手指點出來的點，靠它周圍有什麼來界定。location 的核心畫面比較像這個單純的「所在之處」；其餘幾個意思，其實都是同一個「哪裡」，只是看得更精確一點，或拿去做某種特定用途而已。原始詞典資料7 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。
locationnoun/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
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A particular point or place in physical space.
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
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An act of locating.
- The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
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An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]
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lawA leasing on rent.
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lawA contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
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lawThe marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc
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An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
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。