However, the officials refused to specify the exact whereabouts of Mladic's hideout, but the private Beta news agency said the former commander was found on Cer Mountain, some 60 miles west of Belgrade on the border with Bosnia.
报道中的hideout就是"藏身点",指"a place of shelter or concealment",由动词词组hide out 衍生而来,举个例子,"The lioness hid out her cubs in the tall grass(母狮子把她的幼崽藏在深密的草丛中)。由hide的这层涵义,我们还可得到一个习惯搭配"hide nor hair"(踪迹;痕迹),如I haven't seen hide nor hair of them since the argument(自从那次争论后,我连他们的影子也没看到)。
另外,报道中的whereabouts 也表示地点指"approximate location"(大概所在地),可以用来表示汉语中的"下落"。