centre

英[ˈsentə(r)]美[ˈsentər]

n.中心，核心，焦点，（**）中间派；

v.将…放在正中央，以…为中心，（使）集中于；

复数：centres;

第三人称单数：centres;

过去式：centred;

过去分词：centred;

现在分词：centring;

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Europe’s economic centre of gravity shifted northwards.欧洲的经济重心向北移了。

They designated the new shopping centre York Plaza.他们给这个新购物中心定名为约克购物中心。

an urban renewal programme in the city centre市中心的重建项目

a drug rehabilitation centre戒*康复中心

The wheel revolved on its centre.轮子绕中心转动。

Europe’s economic centre of gravity shifted northward.欧洲的经济重心向北移了。

I am in charge of sustaining the first-aid centre with blood plasma.我负责为急救中心供应血浆。

Many attended the opening of the new sports centre.很多人参加了新体育中心的开始使用典礼。

Hong Kong rates as the biggest trade centre in Asia.香港被认为是亚洲*大的贸易中心。

The centre forward of our school team was sent off the field by the referee for roughing.我们校队的中锋因动作粗野被裁判判罚出场。

英语六级真题

A study by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters finds that, between 1980 and 2007, nearly 8,400 natural disasters killed more than twomillion people.

We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time, says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change, says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

Recent polls by the Pew Research Centre in Washington, DC, found that 75-80 per cent of participants regarded climate change as an important issue.

According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,about three quarter of energy we use to move things, including ourselves, accomplishes no useful work.

Even so, the shift in the centre of gravity to older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies, not just economically and politically but in all sorts of other ways too.

Ronald Lee, director of the Centre on the Economics and Demography of Ageing at the University of California, Berkeley, puts it briefly and clearly: "We don't really know what population ageing will be like, because nobody has done it yet.

It is at the centre of the fashion industry.

It will be used as a centre for athletic training

"We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time," says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

"We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change," says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

Hawking was speaking at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCF) at Cambridge University, a multi-disciplinary institute that will attempt to tackle some of the open-ended questions raised by the rapid pace of development

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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(会议、活动、服务等的)中心

A centre is a building where people have meetings, take part in a particular activity, or get help of some kind.

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(工业、活动等的)中心

If an area or town is a centre for an industry or activity, that industry or activity is very important there.

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中心;中央;中部

The centre of something is the middle of it.

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(市镇的)商业中心，闹市区，繁华地带

The centre of a town or city is the part where there are the most shops and businesses and where a lot of people come from other areas to work or shop.

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中心;核心

If something or someone is at the centre of a situation, they are the most important thing or person involved.

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(关注的)中心，焦点;中心人物

If someone or something is the centre of attention or interest, people are giving them a lot of attention.

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N-SING

(**)中间派，中立派

In politics, the centre refers to groups and their beliefs, when they are considered to be neither left-wing nor right-wing.

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VERB

将…放在正中央

If you centre something, you move it so that it is at the centre of something else.

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V-ERG

（使）以…为中心;（使）注意力集中于

If something centres or is centred on a particular thing or person, that thing or person is the main subject of attention.

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V-ERG

(使)主要发生在；（使）集中于

If an industry or event is centred in a place, or if it centres there, it takes place to the greatest extent there.

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英汉词典释义

n.

中心点, 中心, 中央

使人感兴趣的集中点

中枢

活动集中的地方

**上的中间立场或中间*派

（市镇的）中心区

人口集中的地区；商业中心区；文化中心区

活动中心

居地位的中心；（某领域中成绩突出的）中心

中心；聚集点

以…为中心的；有…中心的

中锋

vt. & vi.

置于中央

集中

把…当作中心；（使）成为中心

英英词典释义

Noun

1. an area that is approximately central within some larger region;

2. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

3. a place where some particular activity is concentrated;

4. the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering

5. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process;

6. a building dedicated to a particular activity;

Verb

1. move into the center;

2. direct one's attention on something;

行业词典

医学： 中心，中央；中枢。同center；