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Orientate is a British verb that does the everyday work Americans mostly give to orient: to find where you are, to face a certain way, or to get used to a new place, job, or set of ideas. You orientate yourself with a map; a course can be orientated towards beginners; a building can be orientated towards the sea. British speakers often say orientate and orientated; American speakers almost always say orient and oriented. Both forms turn up in Britain, so the tidy 'British vs American' story is a little tidier than real pages. It is a normal school-and-office word, not a poetic one. It does not mean 'make something Asian', even though oriental sits nearby.
定位；適應（環境）（英式動詞；美式多用 orient）
組成From orient + -ate, or a back-formation from orientation. Compare French orienter and Italian orientare.
同家族的字
- orientthe shorter verb Americans prefer; same job in everyday use
- orientationthe noun; orientate is sometimes cut back from this
原始詞典資料5 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。
orientateverb/ˈɒɹi.ənteɪt/
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To face a given direction.
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To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
- He[…]stood for a moment, orientating himself exactly in the light of his knowledge.
- He came out of the station and took some time to orientate himself.
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To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.
- The one preferred is to make the dominant forms first order, that is, orientated in such a way as to intersect both horizontal crystallographic axes.
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To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
- Try to orientate your students towards the science subjects.
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archaicTo move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.
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。