Navel
['neɪv(ə)l] or ['nevl]
解释:
(noun.) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached; 'you were not supposed to show your navel on television'; 'they argued whether or not Adam had a navel'; 'she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton'.
(noun.) the center point or middle of something; 'the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe'.
哈罗德手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.
(n.) The central part or point of anything; the middle.
(n.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
校对:玛克辛
解释:
n. the mark or depression in the centre of the lower part of the abdomen at first a small projection.—n. Nāv′el-string the umbilical cord.
安琪编辑
例句:
- He is the god who sits in the centre, on the navel of the earth, and he is the interpreter of religion to all mankind. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- This was the centre, the knot, the navel of the world, where the earth belonged to the skies, pure, unapproachable, impassable. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Here at last she folded her venture and settled down like a crystal in the navel of snow, and was gone. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The two predominating varieties in California are the Washington Navel and the Valencia orange. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Only our ancestral deity sitting upon the centre and navel of the earth will be trusted by us if we have any sense, in an affair of such magnitude. 柏拉图. 理想国.
阿伦编辑