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pivot

英 ['pɪvət] 美['pɪvət]
  • n. 枢轴;中心点;旋转运动
  • vt. 以…为中心旋转;把…置于枢轴上
  • vi. 在枢轴上转动;随…转移
  • adj. 枢轴的;关键的
  • n. (Pivot)人名;(德)皮福特;(法)皮沃

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词态变化


复数: pivots;第三人称单数: pivots;过去式: pivoted;过去分词: pivoted;现在分词: pivoting;

中文词源


pivot 中心,枢轴,核心

来自古法语pivot,绞链,门合页。引申词义中心,枢轴,核心等。

英文词源


pivot (n.)
1610s, from French pivot, from Old French pivot "hinge pin, pivot" (12c.), also "penis," of uncertain origin. Figurative sense of "central point" is recorded from 1813.
pivot (v.)
by 1841, from French pivoter and from pivot (n). Related: Pivoted; pivoting.

双语例句


1. West Africa was the pivot of the cocoa trade.
西非是可可豆贸易的中心。

来自《权威词典》

2. Pivot , for instance , argues that China's infrastructure has already reached an advanced level.
例如,Pivot公司称中国的基础建设已经达到了先进的水平.

来自互联网

3. The smaller of its hands occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.
表上的时针在轴上滑动, 这样, 虽然分钟仍很准确, 但是点钟就没有人能完全肯定了.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. The pedal had sheared off at the pivot.
踏板在枢轴处断裂了。

来自辞典例句

5. Forming the pivot of the exhibition is a large group of watercolours.
整个展览的重点是一大组水彩画。

来自辞典例句