center情景对话
体育运动
A：Where did you go yesterday?
昨天你到哪里去了？
B：I went to play tennis in the public park.
我到公园里去打网球。
A：How often do you play tennis?
你多久打一次？
B：Twice a week. How about you?
每星期两次。你呢？
A：I seldom play tennis. I prefer football and basketball.
我很少打网球。我比较喜欢足球和篮球。
B：But it is very difficult to gather a team of players together.
但是要凑足一队球员是很难的。
A：I usually play with my schoolmates.
我通常和同学们一块儿玩。
B：Do you like watching football matches?
你喜欢看足球比赛吗？
A：Yes, I went to the Tian He Sports Center for the football match last Sunday.
是的，我上星期天还到天河体育中心去看足球比赛了呢。
B：Oh, I watched it on television. It was an exciting match.
哦，我在电视上看过。那是一场紧张的比赛。
Trading Stamps-(用赠券换东西)
A：Every time I go to the grocery, the clerk asks me if I save stamps.I always say no, but sometimes I get them anyway.
每次我去杂货店，店员都问我是否收集赠券。我总是说"不"，不过有的时候我还是积下些赠券。
B：Oh, never turn them down.You can always find someone who'll take them.People spend hours pasting them in little books, and when a book is full.they drive miles to a redemption center where the stamps can be traded for things like pillow cases, or playing cards, or garden tools.
啊，别丢掉它。你总会找到回收赠券的人。 有些人花时间把赠券粘贴在小本子上,当一本贴满后,开几英里的车到回收中心去，在那儿可以用赠券交换像枕头套、扑克牌或修整花园的工具等东西。
A：But you have to save millions of them to get anything worth having.
不过你得收集相当多张才能换回一些有重要价值的东西。
center英英释义
noun
1. a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
2. (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play
e.g. it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback
3. the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
4. a building dedicated to a particular activity
e.g. they were raising money to build a new center for research
Synonym: centre
5. the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
e.g. he hit the ball to deep center
Synonym: center fieldcenterfield
6. mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers
usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area
a modern version of the traditional marketplace
e.g. a good plaza should have a movie house
they spent their weekends at the local malls
Synonym: plazamallshopping mallshopping centershopping centre
7. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
e.g. in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere
Synonym: centrenerve centernerve centre
8. the object upon which interest and attention focuses
e.g. his stories made him the center of the party
Synonym: centrecenter of attentioncentre of attention
9. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
e.g. the gist of the prosecutor's argument
the heart and soul of the Republican Party
the nub of the story
Synonym: kernelsubstancecorecentreessencegistheartheart and soulinwardnessmarrowmeatnubpithsumnitty-gritty
10. the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
Synonym: centre
11. politically moderate persons
centrists
12. the middle of a military or naval formation
e.g. they had to reinforce the center
13. a place where some particular activity is concentrated
e.g. they received messages from several centers
Synonym: centre
14. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
Synonym: centremidpoint
15. an area that is approximately central within some larger region
e.g. it is in the center of town
they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
they were in the eye of the storm
Synonym: centremiddlehearteye
16. (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
e.g. the center fumbled the handoff
Synonym: snapper
17. (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
18. (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
verb
1. direct one's attention on something
e.g. Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies
Synonym: concentratefocuscentreporerivet
2. move into the center
e.g. That vase in the picture is not centered
Synonym: centre
3. center upon
e.g. Her entire attention centered on her children
Our day revolved around our work
Synonym: focus oncenter onrevolve aroundrevolve aboutconcentrate on
adj
1. of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
