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centre
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cen·tre1 British EnglishBrE, center American English /ˈsentə $ -ər/ ●●● S1 W1 noun
1 middle 中间 [countableC usually singular]MIDDLE the middle of a space, area, or object, especially the exact middle 〔空间、地域或物体的〕（正）中间，中心（点）
in the centre (of something)
2 building 建筑物 [countableC]TBB a building which is used for a particular purpose or activity 〔供进行某种活动用的〕中心
3 place of activity 活动场所 [countableC]IMPORTANT a place where there is a lot of a particular type of business, activity etc 〔某种商业或其他活动的〕中心（地区）
4 of a town 城镇的 [countableC] British EnglishBrEAREA the part of a town or city where most of the shops, restaurants, cinemas, theatres etc are 〔集中了大部分商店、餐厅、电影院、剧院等的〕城镇的中心 SYN American English downtown
5 INVOLVEMENT 参与be at the centre of something if a person or thing is at the centre of something that is happening, they are involved in it more than other people or things 是某事的中心人物；处于某事的中心
be at the centre of a row/dispute/controversy etc
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be at the centre of something• The privatization of up to 40 state-owned companies was at the centre of the governments economic recovery plan.• Humiliation was at the centre of Jock Stein's disciplinary philosophy.• The problem of deciding what is relevant and important is at the centre of your task as a note-maker.• The duty officer at the Cabinet Office Briefing Room was at the centre of a web of information technology.• This is at the centre of the Iasiah's concern.• Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand, or accept, bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system.• The Charter will be at the centre of government's decision-making throughout the 1990s.• The inter-relationships between the flows will be at the centre of the proposed research.
6 be the centre of attention to be the person that everyone is giving attention to 成为关注的焦点，引人注目
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be the centre of attention• I loved talking and being the centre of attention, so I was chosen to be spokesperson.• You can be the centre of attention in a conversation but then the focus changes as new participants enter the dialogue.• Once, when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again.• There were more junior officials around them, and Pink was the centre of attention.• Trust Claire to act as if she were the centre of attention.• She was the centre of attention - like all brides.• I like to be the centre of attention or in the public eye 12.• Do they want to be the centre of attention?• And the tower is the centre of attention every May morning when the choir sings out across the rooftops.
7 be/take centre stage if something or someone is centre stage, they have an important position and get a lot of attention 处于重要位置，成为关注的中心
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be/take centre stage• By day, the Pirates Club takes centre stage with games, activities and competitions - even the parents join in!• Meanwhile, Heidi took centre stage at London Fashion Week.• There are many others like him, lurking in the background when they should be centre stage.• She was able to take centre stage, providing comic relief while Zephyr shared intimate moments with her special friends.• As she says herself, this is one lady born to be centre stage.• Charles and Diana were to take centre stage in the drama.• But in her latest role it is her clothes, rather than lack of them, which take centre stage.
8 POLITICS 政治the centre PPGa moderate (=middle) position in politics in which you do not support extreme ideas 中间派[立场]，温和派
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9 sport 体育运动 [countableC]DSB a player in sports such as American football and basketball who plays in or near the middle of the field or playing area 〔美式橄榄球、篮球等的〕中锋
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: a building which is used for a particular purpose or activity
types of centre
a shopping centre
They are building a huge new shopping centre just outside the town.
an information centre
For further details contact the Tourist Information Centre.
a visitor centre
The forest has a visitor centre with information and refreshment facilities.
a leisure centre British EnglishBrE (=for sport and other leisure activities)
There's a leisure centre with a swimming pool, a sauna, and a gymnasium.
a sports centre
You could join exercise classes at your local sports centre.
a garden centre British EnglishBrE (=where you can buy plants, trees etc)
The garden centre stocks a wide variety of houseplants.
an arts centre (=for art, music, theatre, film etc)
Shall we go to the concert at the arts centre on Saturday?
an exhibition centre
The exhibition centre has an interesting display of contemporary art.
a research centre
the new research centre at King's College Hospital
a conference centre
Westgate Hotel has sixty bedrooms and a conference centre.
a training centre
He was a new recruit at the police training centre.
a health/medical centre (=where there are several doctors you can see for medical treatment)
The village has a small school and a health centre.
a day centre British EnglishBrE (=where old, sick etc people can go during the day to be looked after)
A new day centre for the over 70s has recently opened.
a community centre (=where people living in an area can go for social events, classes etc)
The church has been converted into a community centre.
an education centre
Many elderly people come to the education centre to learn to use computers.
a job centre (=a place in Britain where jobs are advertised)
I got the job through an advertisement at the job centre.
a youth centre (=where young people can go to meet and take part in activities)
The money will be used to provide a youth centre.
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: a place where there is a lot of a particular type of business, activity etc
types of centre
a financial centre
Boston is a leading financial centre.
a business centre
The company has branches worldwide in fifteen major business centres.
a commercial centre
Our city is the biggest commercial centre in the country.
a cultural centre
Paris was then the cultural centre of Europe.
a tourist centre
Our destination was Queenstown, a tourist centre set amid mountains and lakes.
a trading centre
The town was a trading centre for the Romans.
a major centre for/of something
The region has been named as a major centre of international terrorism.
a world centre for/of something
The Asian Pacific Rim is a major world centre of commerce, industry, and economic activity.
an international centre for/of something
Zurich is an international centre of finance.
a national centre for/of something
The gardens are a national centre for botanical research.
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centre• In one feeding centre the room for the dead had become a Koranic school for young children.• a charming little town with an unspoiled medieval centre• All the real understanding of the Universe accumulated by Esotericism throughout the ages has come to man via the higher mental centre.• It was converted into a monitoring centre with numerous listening consoles and bays of multi-track tape recorders.• For example, the Kornhaus, a former granary in Kronengasse, which is now principally a young people's centre.• In the early hours of Jan. 13 troops from the local Red Army garrison stormed the Vilnius television centre.• The flower has white petals, and is deep pink at the centre.• A bomb has exploded in the crowded business district in the centre of the old city.• The women all wore a red dot right in the centre of their foreheads.• I work in the centre of London, so I can easily go shopping after work.• As the eggs sink to the bottom they are guided towards the centre, where the aeration sweeps them upwards again.• On August 29, Manuel Indiano Azaustre, 29, was shot dead in the town centre.• She's gone into the town centre to do some shopping.
in the centre (of something)• Place two teaspoons of filling in the centre of each round, making sure it fills the hollow.• Although during the winter there had been no running water this had been restored at least in the centre of the town.• Place a spoonful of the mushroom mixture in the centre of each top piece of filo.• Her husband had already left, but not for his office in the centre.• Twirl the Plate Everyone sits in a circle with an unbreakable plate in the centre.• Tolonen stood in the centre of the chaos, looking about him.
conference centre• Located in a perfect position close to the seafront, entertainment, town centre and conference centre.• But the playroom is to be absorbed into the retreat and conference centre next year.• Ideally situated close to the town and conference centre, on the Brighton border and just off the seafront.• Size of conference centre 194 points 4.• Around the conference centre, the party rocks on with blithe disregard for the economic and political turbulence beyond.• They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre.• Meanwhile, Unix System Labs has negotiated a Unix showcase area squat at the front door of the conference centre.• The conference centre contained one of the main entrances to the bunker.
business/commercial/financial etc centre• People feared that turning the City into Fort Knox would damage its attraction as a financial centre.• The billion-dollar question was whether a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York's position as a financial centre.• Now it's an industrial and commercial centre which thrived during the 80s and is feeling the recession in the 90s.• Portree has long been the commercial centre of the Isle of Skye.• Yet a one man business for immigrants in the commercial centre of the city was an anachronism.• Birmingham is less attractive because it has remained the commercial centre of the Midlands.• The financial centre Bank is the finest architectural arena in the City.• The eight million square feet in the World Financial Centre went up in four years and defied all predictions.
town/city centre• The 116-mile stage ends with eight laps of a city centre circuit.• His farm is about eight miles from Bradford city centre.• Dates set for town centre traffic ban Darlington's town centre traffic ban comes into force on March 29.• Male speaker Last year foreign students were the victims in 30% of our city centre robberies.• After some deliberation they chose the spacious shopping complex at the Telford town centre.• Aida's family own a large apartment near the city centre.• A pair of swans drifted down towards the town centre.• Henry did not want to talk about the redevelopment of Wimbledon town centre.
centre forward/half/back etc• Noo there wis a centre half.• Although a recognised left back, Jimmy Phillips had experience at centre half with Rangers.• Curtis Fleming has been tried at centre half in two recent Central League games but lacks experience for a key job.• With Beeny in goal and Newsome and Wetherall at centre half did the defence look more assured?• The most leaden-footed centre forward 3.• Fifteen minutes later centre forward Quigg was left free to hammer the ball home from 20 yards.• Why did we not buy another younger centre half?
centre2 British EnglishBrE, center American English ●●○ verb [transitiveT]
1 MIDDLEto move something to a position at the centre of something else 集中；使…处于中心位置
2 centre around/round something (also be centred around/round something British English) phrasal verbphr v IMPORTANTif your thoughts, activities etc centre around something or are centred around it, it is the main thing that you are concerned with or interested in 以…为中心，集中于
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centre around/round • Every splinter group of liberalism was to centre round a café table.• Such growth, he reckons, will centre around local government, although the private sector is also showing some interest.• This small area was centred around Oviedo on the northern coast.• Everything centred around St Leonard's.• Our prayers will centre around the privilege, and the responsibility.• Learning should be centred around the total care of a group of patients.• The main dissension in these books centres around two main questions.• In modern times interest has centred around what it is about the owl that makes it the target for this hostile treatment.
3 centre on/upon something (also be centred on/upon something) phrasal verbphr v ABOUTif your attention centres on something or someone, or is centred on them, you pay more attention to them than anything else 〔注意力〕集中于…
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centre on/upon • My interest - my fascinated, horrified interest - was centred on a great bench to one side of the room.• Other hopes have centred on ethanol taking the place of petroleum - but fuel crops must not displace food.• All of this suggests that while love is centred on feelings for another person, feelings for the self are never absent.• Any revolutionary aspirations of the younger members are centred on gaining work and admittance to the mainstream of ordinary life.• A baby's world is centred on herself.• Training was geared more to general fitness than particular skills, and centred on running and skipping to improve speed and stamina.• The most contentious debate had centred on the issue of religious education.• Boy-scout amateurishness, they claim, is on the way out; a professional command-and-control centre on the way in.
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centre• Everything centred around St Leonard's.• Control has often centred on powerful organochlorine pesticides, which kill the locusts but can then damage the environment.• It centres on the collection of pus in areas of muscle.• Discussion centred on the replenishment of the Bank's capital resources.• Work was centred upon the tabulation of entities.
From Longman Business Dictionary
centrecen·tre /ˈsentə-ər/ British EnglishBrE, center American EnglishAmE noun [countableC]
1COMMERCEthe place where most of the important things connected with a business or activity happen
Bahrain has become a major international banking centre.
centre of
plans to turn the town into a centre of high-tech inward investment
2a building that is used for a particular activity
3the part of a town or city where most of the shops, offices, restaurants, cinemas etc are
Our head office is located in the centre of London
shops in Birmingham city centre
cen·tre1 noun →n COLLOCATIONS1 →n COLLOCATIONS2centre2 verb
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