centre
英 ['sentə]
美 ['sentər]
- vi.
- vt.集中させる；中心に置く
- n. 中心
- adj.
英語の語源
- centre
- centre: [14] The word centre came originally from the spike of a pair of compasses which is stuck into a surface while the other arm describes a circle round it. Greek kéntron meant ‘sharp point’, or more specifically ‘goad for oxen’ (it was a derivative of the verb kentein ‘prick’), and hence was applied to a compass spike; and it was not long before this spread metaphorically to ‘mid-point of a circle’. The word reached English either via Old French centre or directly from Latin centrum. The derived adjective central is 16th-century.
=> eccentric - centre
- chiefly British English spelling of center (q.v.); for ending, see -re.
例文
- 1. Malvolio becomes，in default of competition，the play 's moral centre .
- ライバルがいないので、当然、マボリオはこのドラマの道徳的な核心になった。
- 2.The new shopping centre was constructed at a cost of 1.1 million.
- 新しく建設されたショッピングセンターには110万円がかかります。
- 3.Now we live further away from the city centre .
- 今、私たちは都心からもっと遠くに住んでいます。
- 4.They slowly moved from upstage left into the centre .
- 彼らはゆっくりと舞台後方の左側から真ん中に移動した。
- 5.He had taken up a position in the centre of the room.
- 彼は部屋の中心の位置を占めている。