centre
英 ['sent?]
美['sent?r]
- vi. 以…為中心
- vt. 集中；將…放在中央
- n. 中心
- adj. 中央的
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?centres;第三人稱單數(shù):?centres;過去式:?centred;過去分詞:?centred;現(xiàn)在分詞:?centring;
英文詞源
- centre
- centre: [14] The word centre came originally from the spike of a pair of compasses which is stuck into a surface while the other arm describes a circle round it. Greek kéntron meant ‘sharp point’, or more specifically ‘goad for oxen’ (it was a derivative of the verb kentein ‘prick’), and hence was applied to a compass spike; and it was not long before this spread metaphorically to ‘mid-point of a circle’. The word reached English either via Old French centre or directly from Latin centrum. The derived adjective central is 16th-century.
=> eccentric - centre
- chiefly British English spelling of center (q.v.); for ending, see -re.
雙語例句
- 1. Malvolio becomes, in default of competition, the play's moral centre.
- 因?yàn)闆]有與其競爭者，馬伏里奧自然成了該劇的道德核心。
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- 2. The new shopping centre was constructed at a cost of 1.1 million.
- 新建成的購物中心耗資110萬。
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- 3. Now we live further away from the city centre.
- 現(xiàn)在我們住得離市中心更遠(yuǎn)了。
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- 4. They slowly moved from upstage left into the centre.
- 他們慢慢地從舞臺(tái)后方的左側(cè)移至正中。
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- 5. He had taken up a position in the centre of the room.
- 他占據(jù)了房間中心的位置。
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