center

1. → see: centre

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. They ran to the center of the tent to take their bows.
   他们跑到帐篷中央鞠躬致意。
4. Fires were burning out of control in the center of the city
   市中心的火势失去了控制。
5. He put the pile of chips in the center of the table and drew a card.
   他将一堆筹码堆在桌子中间，抽了一张牌。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. Daly kept this school open after hours so it doubled as a community center.
    戴利在学生放学后继续开放学校，把它兼作社区中心。
11. Draw a line down that page's center.
    沿那一页的中心画一条竖线。
12. The Leisure Center is a long and low modern building.
    休闲中心是一个狭长而低矮的现代建筑。
13. Just plop the noodles over the center of the sauce
    把面条轻放在调味汁中间就行了。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. The center is staffed with highly trained physicians
    该中心配备了训练有素的医生。
18. The company has struck gold with its new holiday development, Center Parcs.
    该公司凭借其新开发的“中央公园”度假村而赚了个盆满钵满。
19. 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。
20. Yvonne is thinking of opening her own center soon.
    伊冯想着不久就要开她自己的健身中心了。
21. To remove the ambiguity, these laws should refer to the velocity and the acceleration of the center of mass.
    要避免含糊，这些定律所指的应当是质心的速度和加速度。
22. The6-7 swingman is capable of guarding every position but center.
    6-7的摇摆人能防守中锋以外的每个位置。
23. 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。
24. It moves down at the center of the fixed cylinderical vessel.
    它在固定圆筒容器的中心下移。
25. 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。
26. The Fifth Avenue is a famous shopping center in new york.
    第五大街是纽约著名的购物中心。
27. The diameter of a circle must go through the center.
    圆的直径必相交于圆心。
28. 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。

noun

1. a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game

2. (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play
   1. it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback

3. the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game

4. a building dedicated to a particular activity
   1. they were raising money to build a new center for research

   Synonym:    centre

5. the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
   1. he hit the ball to deep center

   Synonym:    center fieldcenterfield

6. mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers
   1. a good plaza should have a movie house
   2. they spent their weekends at the local malls

   Synonym:    plazamallshopping mallshopping centershopping centre

7. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
   1. in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere

   Synonym:    centrenerve centernerve centre

8. the object upon which interest and attention focuses
   1. his stories made him the center of the party

   Synonym:    centrecenter of attentioncentre of attention

9. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
   1. the gist of the prosecutor's argument
   2. the heart and soul of the Republican Party
   3. the nub of the story

   Synonym:    kernelsubstancecorecentreessencegistheartheart and soulinwardnessmarrowmeatnubpithsumnitty-gritty

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

    Synonym:    centre

11. politically moderate persons

12. the middle of a military or naval formation
    1. they had to reinforce the center

13. a place where some particular activity is concentrated
    1. they received messages from several centers

    Synonym:    centre

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

    Synonym:    centremidpoint

15. an area that is approximately central within some larger region
    1. it is in the center of town
    2. they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
    3. they were in the eye of the storm

    Synonym:    centremiddlehearteye

16. (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
    1. the center fumbled the handoff

    Synonym:    snapper

17. (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team

18. (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team

verb

1. direct one's attention on something
   1. Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies

   Synonym:    concentratefocuscentreporerivet

2. move into the center
   1. That vase in the picture is not centered

   Synonym:    centre

3. center upon
   1. Her entire attention centered on her children
   2. Our day revolved around our work

   Synonym:    focus oncenter onrevolve aroundrevolve aboutconcentrate on

adj

1. of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually