| 单词 | center |
| 释义 | cen·ter I. 1. a. b. archaic 2. < St. Thomas and his God placed man in the center of the universe and made the sun and stars for his uses — Henry Adams > a. < the center from which the spokes branch out > b. < the old school was the center of our lives somehow: dances, socials, Sunday services, political meetings — E.A.McCourt > < the … Abilene region … has been the center of considerable controversy — R.W.Murray > c. < a railroad center > < a tobacco center > < a center for textile research > < the landing … is usually the center of much activity, because of the constant ferrying — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > < the Emperor Napoleon was the real center of French sympathy for the South — A.L.Churchill > d. < intensive propaganda from the center — Alex Comfort > e. < the respiratory center > < the visual or motor center > f. < do not produce here or import … from any other provincial center such perfect musical tailoring — Virgil Thomson > g. < medical center > < separation center > h. < shopping center > < medical center > < amusement center > i. 3. < the crown or arching center of the road — Thomas DeQuincey > < at the center of the battle > : a person or persons stationed or acting at or near the middle : a thing placed at the middle : a shot or stroke toward the middle: a. < chocolates with hard centers > b. c. sometimes capitalized d. sometimes capitalizeditalized e. f. < ballet exercises are easier done at the bar than in the center > 4. 5. a. (1) (2) (3) (4) b. 6. a. b. < his bad center sailed over the fullback's head > c. 7. a. b. Synonyms: < the very center and focus of literary education — F.N.Robinson > < the true center of the book is its core of irony — Dayton Kohler > < making that Sunday school what it ought to have been … the heart and focus of the parochial life — Compton Mackenzie > In its geometrical sense center suggests more exactness than middle. The latter word may be used for considerations of time < in the middle (but not the center) of the night > or of a sequence < the middle of a series > center differs further from middle in being able to suggest capacity for acting, influencing, effecting. Contrast “he was the center of the conflict” and “he was in the middle of the conflict”. midst suggests location well within a perimeter or situation of being surrounded or beset by matters important, demanding, or threatening < the small democratic island in the midst of the European sea of dictatorship — Books Abroad > < we were in the midst of the foam, which boiled around us — Frederick Marryat > focus may suggest a center to which lines converge or on which forces act < gold — the focus of desire — Bernard De Voto > < the focus of religious life was the church building — H.S.Bennett > nucleus suggests a center likely to grow, increase, undergo accretion, acquire surrounding or additional matter, force, or numbers < not primarily boarding schools but rather day schools with a nucleus of boarders — J.B.Conant > < these two institutions have provided our Army and our Navy with the nucleus of their corps of officers — C.T.Lanham > heart indicates a center which either gives an essential nature to the whole or serves as a vital, positive, or motivating part < sense knowledge cannot therefore be genuine knowledge, for it does not … get at the heart of reality — Frank Thilly > < the industrial northeast, widening westward, became the ruling region, the economic heart; the plantation South and the agrarian West became colonies — Roger Burlingame > core may add to the ideas of nucleus and heart the idea of resistant firmness in which reliability may be placed and imply that peripheral matters are unimportant and adventitious < the core or the nucleus upon which all the other civilized democracies of Europe … can one day rally — Sir Winston Churchill > < the core of the book, to wit, the allegory — J.L.Lowes > hub may contrast with focus and suggest a center whence lines or influences radiate out, a center on which matters peripheral may depend < the hub of roads fanning out to the four points of the compass — New York Times > < some activities … are relatively isolated; other activities such as those at Pearl Harbor are grouped together to form a vast naval hub — All Hands > II. transitive verb 1. a. < center a typewriter carriage > < center a picture on a wall > < the shaft is centered in a city square — American Guide Series: Minnesota > b. < a hamlet that was centered around the church > 2. < a story to tell, centered around the political development of a great state — J.T.Adams > < everything had prepared the Boston mind to center its thoughts on history — Van Wyck Brooks > < all work on the plantation was centered on raising foodstuffs — A.W.Long > < more scholarship than is usual was centered around the main problems > 3. < the business square, neat and compact, centers the village — American Guide Series: Vermont > < a bowl of white flowers centered the table > 4. a. b. 5. a. b. 6. a. b. c. 7. a. b. < a stamp may be centered to the right or left > < a stamp well centered > intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. a. < the community centers around a small circular park — American Guide Series: Arkansas > < the tribal organization centered in the chief > b. < another trilogy … would have centered in the battle of Gettysburg — Carl Van Doren > < discussions centering successively about such subjects as the weather, the house, the farm — M.L.Hanley > III. < a center table > < a center panel > < a center seat in a theater > < the center aisle > IV. |
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