install

1. V-T If you install a piece of equipment, you put it somewhere so that it is ready to be used. 安裝

They had installed a new phone line in the apartment. 他們在公寓裡安裝了一根新的電話線。

2. installationN-UNCOUNT 安裝

Hundreds of lives could be saved if the installation of alarms was more widespread. 如果警報器的安裝範圍更爲廣泛，成百上千人的生命就可能獲救。

3. V-T If someone is installed in a new job or important position, they are officially given the job or position, often in a special ceremony. 正式任命

A temporary government was installed. 一屆臨時政府被正式任命。

Professor Sawyer was formally installed as president last Thursday. 上星期二，索耶教授被正式任命爲校長。

4. installationN-UNCOUNT 任命儀式; 就職儀式

He sent a letter inviting Naomi to attend his installation as chief of his tribe. 他給娜奧米寄了封信，邀請她來蓡加他就任部落酋長的儀式。

5. V-T If you install yourself in a particular place, you settle there and make yourself comfortable. 安頓[正式]

Before her husband's death she had installed herself in a modern villa. 在丈夫去世之前她就已經在一所現代的別墅裡安頓了下來。