from the Spanish form of equator (which runs through it). Before 1830 the region bore the name of its chief city, Quito, which is from the name of a now-extinct native people, of unknown meaning. Related: Ecuadorian; Ecuadorean.
权威例句
1. They had stopped Ecuador from building up attacks with good marking.
他们运用出色的盯人技术使厄瓜多尔队无法组织起进攻。
2. Ecuador lies between Columbia, Peru, and the Pacific Ocean.
厄瓜多尔位于哥伦比亚 、 秘鲁和太平洋之间.
3. Ecuador provides a perfect introduction to South America; it's a continent in miniature.
厄瓜多尔是认识南美洲的绝佳切入点,它是南美大陆的缩影。
4. What right have you to come here and tell Ecuador how to run this country?
你有什么权利到这儿来教训厄瓜多尔应该怎样管理国家?
5. Its distribution encompasses moistly seasonally dry forest in coastal Ecuador and Peru.