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dead center

死中心,正中,死点,死角处

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Machinery.

    • : Also called dead point. either of two positions at which the crank cannot be turned by the connecting rod, occurring at each end of a stroke when the crank and connecting rod are in the same line.
    • : See under center.

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  • In between, Mountcastle launched a game-tying home run to dead center field on a curveball that caught too much plate.

  • These two lines were visible in the puzzle as the circled coordinates, assuming the dead center of the grid was the origin of the coordinate plane.

  • The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.

  • A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.

  • Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.

  • It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.

  • Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

  • The controlling center of consciousness is the extreme limit of the nares anteri.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.

  • To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.

  • It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.