The pivot in a situation is the most important thing which everything else is based on or arranged around.
例句
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 something pivots, it balances or turns on a central point.
例句
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。She pivots gracefully on the stage...她在舞台上优雅地旋转。
N-COUNT
枢轴;支点
A pivot is the pin or the central point on which something balances or turns.
例句
The pedal had sheared off at the pivot.踏板在枢轴处断裂了。
英汉词典释义
n.
枢,枢轴,支点
turning on a pivot在枢轴上转动The smaller of its hands occasionally slipped round on the pivot,and thus,though the minutes were told with precision,nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.表上的时针在轴上滑动,这样,虽然分钟仍很准确,但是点钟就没有人能完全肯定了。
vt.
以…为核心;围绕(主旨)展开
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。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。
英英词典释义
Noun
1. the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver
2. axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
3. the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot;
"the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot"