center是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 中心， 中央， 中间vt. 集中vi. 以…为中心，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Considering her size, the SCOTIA might justly look upon the DUNCAN as a mere fly-boat, and yet this pleasure yacht of Lord Glenarvan was quite the center of attraction, and the excitement about her daily increased.
-- After attentively observing both the zenith and horizon, Glenarvan went back to the center of the trunk.
-- This kept increasing by degrees till it overspread the entire horizon, kindling the clouds which were faithfully mirrored in the waters as if they were masses of combustible material, beneath, and presented the appearance of an immense globe of fire, the center of which was the OMBU.
-- This meteor soon began to move forward, turning over and over on itself with dizzy rapidity, and sweeping up into its center a column of water from the lake, while its gyratory motions made all the surrounding currents of air rush toward it.
-- The wagon, with its passengers and provisions, was the very center of the caravan, the moving fortress.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of the mazurka, repeating a complicated figure, newly invented by Korsunsky, Anna came forward into the center of the circle, chose two gentlemen, and summoned a lady and Kitty.
-- The Countess Lidia Ivanovna was a friend of her husband's, and the center of that one of the coteries of the Petersburg world with which Anna was, through her husband, in the closest relations.
-- The center of this circle was the Countess Lidia Ivanovna.
-- From the center and outside of the ring all were crowding to the winning post, and a group of soldiers and officers of the horse-guards were shouting loudly their delight at the expected triumph of their officer and comrade.
-- "Come tomorrow to the messroom," said Vronsky, and squeezing him by the sleeve of his coat, with apologies, he moved away to the center of the race course, where the horses were being led for the great steeplechase.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him care-fully, and return to his place on noiseless feet.
-- There was a ruined sum-mer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago.
-- Baloo went down to the tank for a drink and Bagheera began to put his fur in order, as Kaa glided out into the center of the terrace and brought his jaws together with a ringing snap that drew all the monkeys' eyes upon him.
-- When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhak tree in the center of the plain.
-- Some trees grew in the center of the clearing, but their bark was rubbed away, and the white wood beneath showed all shiny and polished in the patches of moonlight.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the trolley came into the center of the city, Martin coaxed, "There's an all-night lunch up Oberlin Avenue where we can get some white mule.
-- Both ladies turned on Pickerbaugh and denounced him, and when they had been removed he was the center of a thousand chuckles, in decided danger of never going to Congress.
-- Though there was a decrease in the Plague at Carib, Sondelius was worried, because it was the worst center for infected ground squirrels on the island.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Munroe girls rushed up to exclaim over her dress, and she was speedily the center of a circle of voices thatrose higher and higher in efforts to be heard above the din.
-- She was undoubtedly the belle of the barbecue,the center of attention.
-- In a space of time but little longer than Scarlett's seventeen years, Atlanta had grown from a single stake driven inthe ground into a thriving small city of ten thousand that was the center of attention for the whole state.
-- In the center of the hall the huge ugly lamp, hanging from the ceiling by rusty chains, was completely transformedby twining ivy and wild grapevines that were already withering from the heat.
-- And all her life she had enjoyed the center of thestage.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Niggers would come from all around there and give Jim anything they had, just for a sight of that five- center piece; but they wouldn't touch it, because the devil had had his hands on it.
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