Center

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

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

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

(noun.) a building dedicated to a particular activity; 'they were raising money to build a new center for research'.

(noun.) a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; 'in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere'.

(noun.) the object upon which interest and attention focuses; 'his stories made him the center of the party'.

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

(noun.) politically moderate persons; centrists.

(noun.) the middle of a military or naval formation; 'they had to reinforce the center'.

(noun.) a place where some particular activity is concentrated; 'they received messages from several centers'.

(noun.) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure.

(noun.) an area that is approximately central within some larger region; 'it is in the center of town'; 'they ran forward into the heart of the struggle'; 'they were in the eye of the storm'.

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

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

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

(verb.) move into the center; 'That vase in the picture is not centered'.

(adj.) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually .

(adj.) equally distant from the extremes .

手打:玛吉

• A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the time of Harun Al-Rashid (800 A.D) and his son, the Caliphate of Bagdad was the center of Arab science. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Criminology (to use an awkward word) is finding a human center. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The oven filled with calcium carbide is then electrically heated with a carbon rod running through the center. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At a signal from Dak Kova the doors of two cages were thrown open and a dozen green Martian females were driven to the center of the arena. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• As he took each article from the walls, he placed it in a pile in the center of the room. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Pillars are required under the center of the ice. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• But it is organized in connection with direct practical centers of interest. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It is quite apparent, therefore, that the weight centers around the nerve. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Its control over finance has spread until now it affects the whole country and is a rival of the great financial centers of Europe. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They provide vital centers for the reception and assimilation of information. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The interest in this machine centers not in its development as used today, but in the fact that it led to the invention and perfection of the self-binder. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The dance halls, the social centers, the playgrounds, the reception of strangers--these can become instruments for civilizing sexual need. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Feudalism was doomed by the applications of the new science, for they transferred power from the landed nobility to the manufacturing centers. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I am attempting to suggest some of the essentials of a statesman's equipment for the work of a humanly centered politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Science was valid, art was valid, the poorest grubber in a laboratory was engaged in a real labor, anyone who had found expression in some beautiful object was truly centered. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is centered upon whatever has a bearing upon the effective pursuit of your occupation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It is literally eccentric: it has been centered mechanically instead of vitally. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Activity must be centered at a given time in such a way as to prepare for what comes next. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Only effort can keep the mind centered truly. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Tradition has centered upon the tariff, the trusts, the currency, and electoral machinery as the items of consideration. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was an excellent example of the creative results that come from centering a political problem on human nature. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But the vision of the new statecraft in centering politics upon human interests becomes a creator of opportunities instead of a censor of morals, and deserves a fresh and heightened regard. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A target is not the future goal of shooting; it is the centering factor in a present shooting. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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