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
- A heavy car with a low center of gravity will hug the road.
重心低的载重汽车会在路面上平稳行驶。 - He is currently being held in a metropolitan correctional center.
他现在被关在一个大城市的改造中心。 - The flag was red, with a large white circle in the center
旗子是红色的，中央有个白色大圆圈。 - Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into the center of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius
几十万人涌入立陶宛首都维尔纽斯的市中心。 - 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。 - The diameter of a circle must go through the center.
圆的直径必相交于圆心。 - Ten years ago today the US Center for Disease Control published the first faint warnings of a worldwide epidemic.
10年前的今天，美国疾病控制中心敷衍其事地发出了第一份警告：一场世界范围的流行病可能会出现。 - The Hurricane Center warns people not to take the threat of tropical storms lightly
飓风中心警告人们，不要对热带风暴的危险掉以轻心。 - 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 aimed for the center of the man's head and squeezed off a single round.
他瞄准那名男子的脑门正中开了一枪。