center
center 英 ['sentə] 美 [ˈsɛntɚ]
n. 中心，中央 v. 居中，被置于中心 adj. 中央的
进行时:centering 过去式:centered 过去分词:centered 第三人称单数:centers 名词复数:centers
- Whether you are the center of attention or hanging out at the recreation center, you are in the middle of it all.
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- n. 中心，中央
- v. 居中，被置于中心
- adj. 中央的
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1. a new shopping center
一个新的购物中心。
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2. the center of your life
你的生活中心
- center (n.) late 14c., "middle point of a circle; point round which something revolves," from Old French centre (14c.), from Latin centrum "center," originally the fixed point of the two points of a drafting compass (hence "the center of a circle"), from Greek kentron "sharp point, goad, sting of a wasp," from kentein "stitch," from PIE root *kent- "to prick" (source also of Breton kentr "a spur," Welsh cethr "nail," Old High German hantag "sharp, pointed").
- center (v.) 1590s, "to concentrate at a center," from center (n.). Meaning "to rest as at a center" is from 1620s. Sports sense of "to hit toward the center" is from 1890. Related: Centered; centering. To be centered on is from 1713. In combinations, -centered is attested by 1958.
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