- 1把（某事物）放在某個脈絡裡理解；定位。學術寫作用語——論文裡說「將這場運動置於冷戰的脈絡中」就是這個字。另一個常見意思是「位於」（be situated 位在某處）。
This sense is the thinking one: to place an idea, an event, or a piece of work inside a bigger picture, so that people can see what it belongs to. A historian situates a war in the years that led up to it. A writer situates her novel within the tradition of other novels like it. You are not moving anything; you are saying "here is where this sits, and here is what it sits next to." It is an academic word, common in essays, papers, and serious book reviews, and rare in conversation. It very often comes with in or within. The older, plainer sense is physical — to put a building or place somewhere — but in that sense English almost always uses the past participle: the hotel is situated near the beach. So meet situated far more often than situate. The thinking sense borrows the same shape: this argument is situated within a wider debate. The noun from the same root is situation, and the family likeness helps: a situation is where things stand, and to situate is to say where something stands.
組成From Latin situs, meaning a place or position — the same root that gives us site and situation. The -ate ending turns it into a verb: to give something a place.
原始詞典資料4 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。
situateverb/ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.eɪt/
- 1
To place on or into a physical location.
- The statue is situated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area situated behind the building.
- 2
To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.
- The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.
- Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather have situated Hobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project.
situateadj/ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.ət/
- 1
archaicSituated.
- Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
- Pleasure situate in hill and dale.
- 2
governmentheraldryhobbiesSituated; located.
- [...] graunted unto ye sayd Arthure Herrys for his Creast on the heaulme a Stagges head losengy couppe siluer & gules horned gold situate on a wreathe gold & azure mantelled gules doubled siluer which togither w ye sayd ancient Armes viz[…] In the yere of our Lord God MCCCCClxxviij […]
- The arms of the College of Surgeons in Endinburgh, I fancy, afford the only instance of what is presumably a corpse, the blazon being: "Azure, a man (human body) fesswise between a dexter hand having an eye on the palm issuing out of a cloud downward and a castle situate on a rock proper, within a bordure or charged with several instruments peculiar to the art (sic); on a canton of the first a saltire argent surmounted of a thistle vert, crowned of the third."
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。