| 词汇 | off-center |
| 释义 | off-center adjective[ after verb ] US(UKoff-centre)us/ˌɑːfˈsen.t̬ɚ/uk /ˌɒfˈsen.tər/ almost, but not quite, in a central position Centres of objects at the core of something bowel central centrality centrally core hub inner ring innermost interiority interiorly internal median medianly mesad mesial mesially mid off-centre the bowels of somethingidiom Examples of off-centeroff-center A regular headphone jack, positioned slightly off-center, is integrated into the same edge as the power and volume buttons. From Ars Technica You'll notice the objects that disappear in the video are all slightly off-center. From NBCNews.com He started exploring three-dimensional art, making pairs of sketches with the central object of one frame set just slightly off-center. From Huffington Post And when those two met up, they together, when they coalesced, they kicked each other off-center. From NPR But a pre-operative x-ray revealed that his bone had begun to re-knit itself off-center. From Foreign Policy The zany pattern has scientists baffled, as they were expecting to see daytime temperatures more akin to an off-center bull's eye. From National Geographic He is everything many of us knew he would be: bizarre, off-center, scary, nasty, unqualified and more. From Buffalo News An off-center lead will produce a point that gets progressively more difficult to sharpen evenly. From Huffington Post This is called precession, and happens when a spinning object has an off-center force on it. From Slate Magazine With the pipe off-center, the rams couldn't get a good hold of it, didn't get a clear cut and fell 2 inches shy of sealing properly. From NOLA.com The show seemed so off-center. From Los Angeles Times The difference between a gold medal and 28th place is often a matter of a foot pulled a few degrees off-center, or a shoulder dipped an inch too low. From ESPN It's slightly better if you're holding the tablet in landscape mode or (delicately) by the top, but even then it's a bit strange to have the camera off-center. From Ars Technica You may also want to sit just slightly off-center to amplify the stereo effect seeing as how the dead center seat is the focal point for both audio channels. From Gizmodo She writes about slightly off-center marriages or love affairs, about the thin boundaries in childhood between wonder and perversion, about real estate and, of all things, existential loneliness. From NPR These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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