center
英 [ˈsentə(r)]
美 [ˈsentər]
n. 篮球中锋，中场手; 中心，中心区，中央，中枢，核心，（议会等的）中间派，中心站（或场，所），中线
v. 集中，把……聚集在
复数：centers 过去分词：centered 过去式：centered 现在分词：centering 第三人称单数：centers
BNC.8131 / COCA.530
柯林斯词典
- → see:centre
英英释义
noun
- a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
- (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play
- it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback
- the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
- a building dedicated to a particular activity
- they were raising money to build a new center for research
- the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
- he hit the ball to deep center
- mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers
- a good plaza should have a movie house
- they spent their weekends at the local malls
- a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
- in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere
- the object upon which interest and attention focuses
- his stories made him the center of the party
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the gist of the prosecutor's argument
- the heart and soul of the Republican Party
- the nub of the story
- the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
- politically moderate persons
- the middle of a military or naval formation
- they had to reinforce the center
- a place where some particular activity is concentrated
- they received messages from several centers
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- it is in the center of town
- they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
- they were in the eye of the storm
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- the center fumbled the handoff
- (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
- (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
verb
- direct one's attention on something
- Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies
- move into the center
- That vase in the picture is not centered
- center upon
- Her entire attention centered on her children
- Our day revolved around our work
adj
- of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
双语例句
- Some students today blocked a highway that cuts through the center of the city
今天一些学生堵塞了一条贯穿市中心的公路。 - At the center of the dial is a piece of smoky glass
表盘的中央是一块烟灰色的玻璃。 - Draw a line down that page's center.
沿那一页的中心画一条竖线。 - Indianapolis beat out nearly 100 other cities as the site for a huge United Airlines maintenance center
印第安纳波利斯从近百座城市中胜出，成为美国联合航空公司大型维护中心所在地。 - Fires were burning out of control in the center of the city
市中心的火势失去了控制。 - The chief differences between chlorophyll and heme are the presence of a magnesium atom in the center of the porphyrin ring.
叶绿素和血红素之间的主要的差别为在卟啉环中心存在一个镁原子。 - The center is staffed with highly trained physicians
该中心配备了训练有素的医生。 - Just plop the noodles over the center of the sauce
把面条轻放在调味汁中间就行了。 - Center cities are the basic struts for china's new economic system and the pivots for economic motion.
中心城市是我国新的经济体制模式框架的基本支撑点和经济运行的枢纽。 - He had been denied what he believed to be his rightful position at the center of things
他被拒绝了他认为原应属于自己的中心地位。