pivots

英 [ˈpɪvəts]

美 [ˈpɪvəts]

n.  支点; 枢轴; 中心点; 最重要的人(或事物); 中心; 核心
v.  (使)在枢轴上旋转(或转动)
pivot的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 中枢；枢纽；要点；中心点
  The pivotin a situation is the most important thing which everything else is based on or arranged around.
  1. 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。
• VERB 在枢轴上转动
  If somethingpivots, it balances or turns on a central point.
  1. The boat pivoted on its central axis and pointed straight at the harbour entrance...
     小船原地掉过头来，直指海港入口。
  2. She pivots gracefully on the stage...
     她在舞台上优雅地旋转。
  3. He pivoted his whole body through ninety degrees.
     他整个身体转过90度。
• N-COUNT 枢轴；支点
  Apivotis the pin or the central point on which something balances or turns.
  1. The pedal had sheared off at the pivot.
     踏板在枢轴处断裂了。

双语例句

• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns.
  生活中有某些时刻就像旋轴一样，你的生存就围绕着它在旋转。
• The Empire pivots on Singapore.
  大英帝国是以新加坡为枢轴的。
• Pull electric line off retaining pivots.
  从固定枢轴中拔出电线。
• Center cities are the basic struts for china's new economic system and the pivots for economic motion.
  中心城市是我国新的经济体制模式框架的基本支撑点和经济运行的枢纽。
• A pin or gudgeon, especially either of two small cylindrical projections on a cannon forming an axis on which it pivots. analysis the for nonperpendicularity between the trunnion and vertical axis, and nonperpendicularity between the trunnion and gun bore axis is also given.
  炮耳轴或耳轴，尤指炮两边形成旋转中轴的两个圆柱形小突起并且对炮耳轴和竖直轴不垂直度，炮膛轴线和炮耳轴不垂直度进行了分析；
• Remove the four screws near the wiper pivots that secure the wiper module to the cowl plenum panel.
  拆卸固定雨刷模组到罩通风板且距离雨刷枢轴最近的四个螺丝。
• The novel pivots around a long conversation between two characters.
  这部小说是以两个人物的对话为中心展开的。
• The switch arm pivots on a length of steel wire.
  开关杆以一段金属丝当作旋转的支点。
• The story pivots on the relationship between the two brothers.
  这个故事主要是讲兄弟俩之间的关系。
• The success of the project pivots on investment from abroad.
  这个工程的成功主要依靠外来投资。