map
noun
verb
mæp noun
1 a drawing of a particular area for example a city or country, which shows its main features, such as its roads, rivers, mountains etc 地图
According to the map we should turn left.
从地图上看,我们应该左拐。
I’ll draw a map of where we live.
我来给我们住的地方画个地图。
on a map
I’m just trying to find Vancouver on the map.
我只是想在地图上找到温哥华。
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a large-scale map of Mexico City
大比例尺墨西哥城地图
street/road/route map
a full colour street map of Amsterdam
一幅全彩色的阿姆斯特丹街道图
Do you know how to read a map (=understand the information it gives) ?
你会看地图吗?
2 a drawing of an area showing some kind of special feature, for example the type of rocks, weather, population etc 〔类似地图的〕图,图像,图谱;
an archaeological map of the area
该地区的考古图
the colour weather map in the newspaper
报纸上彩色的天气图
political map
3
put sth on the map
to make a place famous 使(某地)出名
It was the Olympic Games that really put Seoul on the map.
是那场奥运会使首尔大大地出了名。
4
off the map
a long way from any large town 非常偏远的 informal
It’s a small place in Nebraska. Right off the map.
这是内布拉斯加州的一个小地方,很偏远。
verb
5 to make a map of a particular area 绘制〔某地区〕的地图
He spent the next fifteen years mapping the Isle of Anglesey.
他利用后来的十五年绘制了安格尔西岛的地图。
6 to discover or show information about something, especially about its shape or arrangement, or how it moves or works 发现,表示出〔某物的形状和排列形式,或其移动或工作的方式〕
The points at which stress and anxiety emerge can be mapped.
可以按图索骥,找到什么时候出现紧张和焦虑。
7 to match something or have a direct relationship with something 把…与…相连
8 to plan carefully how something will happen 仔细策划,计划
Her own future had been mapped out for her by wealthy and adoring parents.
她那有钱又深爱她的父母已把她的前途规划好了。