【center音标】 英[ˈsentə(r)] 美[ˈsentər]
【单词释义】 center是什么意思：
n.(Am. Br.=centre)中心；（市镇的）中心区；中心点；中枢
vt.&vi.置于中央；集中；把…当作中心；（使）成为中心
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[单词复数] centers [第三人称单数] centers
[单词现在分词] centering
[单词过去式] centered
[单词过去分词] centered
【center形近词/近似词】
enter v.进入；加入,参加
presenter n.主持人，主播；颁奖人；演讲人，发言人；提出者；推荐者；赠送者
dissenter n.持异议者，持不同意见者
epicenter n. 震中；中心
renter n. 承租人；佃户；房东
carpenter n.木工，木匠
【近义词解析】
◇ 中心，中央
centre(美为center) (n. 中心，集中点)：指空间、地域或物体的中心点，也可指学术、商业等活动的中心。
heart (n. 中心)：指事物最重要的部分；也可指方位上的中心，作此义解时可与 centre 换用。
middle (n. 中间，中央，中部)：指空间、时间或事件的中间部分。
midst ([六级/考研]n. [正式]中间)：指位于某地的中部或者处于一群人、一堆物品中间，也可指在某事的进行过程中。
【单词例句】
◇ The holidays center around food, so make sure your partner doesn't go hungry. If they keep kosher, have allergies, are vegetarian or vegan, or have other dietary restrictions, whoever is cooking needs to know that in advance.
节日聚会都是围绕着吃展开的，所以要确保你的伴侣不会饿肚子。如果他们吃洁食，对某些食物过敏，是素食者，或有其他饮食禁忌，都要提前告诉做饭的人。
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◇ "This is an extremely positive thing to do," said Charles Foster, chairman of US China Partnerships in Houston, Texas, and former chairman of the Asia Society Texas Center.
位于美国德克萨斯州休斯顿的美中合作委员会主席查尔斯•福斯特说：“这件事情有非常积极的作用。”他还曾担任亚洲协会德克萨斯中心主席。
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◇ "There are a few different things going on here," Dr. Angela Catic, a geriatrician and associate professor in the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life. One, she says, is that the discs between the vertebrae in your spine lose fluid as you get older. "They become dehydrated and, with that, they lose height — and you lose a bit of height," she says.
美国贝勒医学院赫芬顿衰老研究中心的老年病学专家、副教授安吉拉·卡蒂克博士告诉雅虎生活频道：“有几种不同情况。”一种情况是，年纪大了以后，脊柱椎间盘所含的液体会减少。她指出：“脊柱椎间盘脱水后会变短，从而让你变矮。”
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◇ He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center.
他拥有一个农场，离华盛顿约20英里，那里的乔治镇村庄是集市中心。