1
- a place where passenger trains stop on a railway line, typically with platforms and buildings火车站：
a railway station
火车站
in names Paddington Station.帕丁顿车站。
2
- usu. with modifier a place or building where a specified activity or service is based站, 所, 局, 台：
a research station in the rainforest
雨林地区的一个观测站
coastal radar stations.
海岸雷达站。
2.1
- a small military base, especially of a specified kind小型军事基地, 驻地：
a naval station.
一个海军站。
2.2
- N. Amer. a subsidiary post office〈北美〉邮政支局。
2.3
- Austral./NZ a large sheep or cattle farm〈澳/新西兰〉大型牧羊（或牛）场。
3
- with modifier a company involved in broadcasting of a specified kind电台：
a radio station.
广播电台。
4
- the place where someone or something stands or is placed on military or other duty直立位置; 岗位; 站位：
the lookout resumed his station in the bow.
监视哨又开始在船首站岗。
4.1
- count noun dated one's social rank or position〈旧〉身份, 地位; 职位：
Karen was getting ideas above her station.
卡伦想要升职。
5
- Botany a particular site at which an interesting or rare plant grows【植】（珍稀植物的）生境, 产地。
6
- short for STATION OF THE CROSS.STATION OF THE CROSS的简称。
with obj. and adverbial of place
- put in or assign to a specified place for a particular purpose, especially a military one安置, 驻扎, 派驻：
troops were stationed in the town
军队驻扎在这个城镇里
a young girl had stationed herself by the door.
一个少女站在门边。
词源
Middle English (as a noun)： via Old French from Latin statio（n-）, from stare 'to stand'. Early use referred generally to 'position', especially 'position in life, status', and specifically, in ecclesiastical use, to 'a holy place of pilgrimage (visited as one of a succession)'. The verb dates from the late 16th cent.