core

英 [kɔː(r)] 美 [kɔːr]

• n. 核心；果心；要点
• vt. 挖去果核

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]果心

   the hard centre part containing the seeds of certain fruits

2. [S]核心,要点

   the most important or central part of anything

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 核心
2. 精髓
3. 果心
4. 中心部分
5. <美>基础课设置
6. 岩芯
7. 砂芯
8. 芯材
9. 地核
10. 芯体
11. 中心
12. 【地】岩心
13. 【铸】型心
14. 【建】衬心
15. 【电】心
16. 心线
17. 磁心
18. 堆芯
19. 内核纤芯

abbr. 缩略词

1. =Congress of Racial Equality 争取种族平等会议

v. 动词

1. 用砂芯铸
2. 挖去…的果核
3. 取…的岩芯样品
4. 取出岩心
5. 核化
6. 去掉果心
7. 去核儿

英英释义

Noun:

1. a small group of indispensable persons or things;

   "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
   

2. the center of an object;

   "the ball has a titanium core"
   

3. the central part of the Earth

4. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

   "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"
   "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"
   "the nub of the story"
   

5. a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

6. an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

7. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

8. (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories;

   "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit"
   

9. the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

10. a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

Verb:

1. remove the core or center from;

   "core an apple"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The core of our appeal is freedom of speech.
   我们的要求的核心是言论自由。
2. He is American to the core.
   他是个地地道道的美国人。
3. He ate the plum, and threw the core away.
   他吃掉了李子，并扔掉了果核。
4. Let's get to the core of the argument.
   咱们进入实质性的辩论吧。
5. This concept is at the very core of her theory.
   这个概念是她理论的核心。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. An apple core is the part of an apple left after the flesh has been eaten.
   苹果核是在苹果肉吃完后剩下的部分。
2. He didn't get to the core of the subject.
   他没有触及问题的核心。
3. The core of our appeal is freedom of speech.
   我们呼吁的中心是要言论自由。

经典引文

• The Canker, or Coar, of the late Rebellion was torn out by this loyal Acknowledgment.

  出自： fig.

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

to the core

十分,彻底地 thoroughly; completely

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• get to the core 触及核心

形容词+～

• hard core 碎砖石,硬果核

介词+～

• at the core 在核心
• to the core 十分,彻底地

～+介词

• core of the matter 事情的本质
• core of the problem〔subject〕 问题〔论题〕的核心

词义辨析

n. (名词)

core, centre, middle, midst

• 这组词都有“中间”“中部”的意思。其区别在于:
• 1.middle指距离两端或两边相等距离的中央或中间部分,也可指一段时间或行动始末的中间一段; midst指空间、时间、事物、人群等的中间; core指果实的果心; centre指空间的方、圆等位于中心的位置。例如:
• There is a double writing table in the middle of the room.房子中间放着一张双人写字台。
• He was elected from the midst of the prisoners.他是从犯人中选出的。
• The core of the apple is hard.苹果核是硬的。
• This building is at the centre of the city.这座大楼坐落在市中心。
• 2.core引申为“精髓”“核心”或“重要部分”; centre则引申为重要活动或事物的中心。例如:
• We didn't get to the core of the subject.我们没触及问题的核心。
• The core of our appeal is freedom of speech.我们呼吁的中心是要言论自由。
• She loves to be the centre of interest.她喜欢成为引人注意的中心人物。

center，middle，heart，core，midst

• 这些名词均含有“中心”之意。
• center指三维空间的中心点，也可比喻抽象事物的中心。
• middle一般指时间、空间或过程两端间等距的部分。
• heart指事物最内部或最重要的部分，表地理位置时可与center换用。
• core指某事物固定的中心部分或最重要的核心部分。比喻意义指某物的精华。
• midst书面语用词，指在一个群体的深处或在某活动的进程中。

词源解说

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的coeur，意为果核,生菜心；最初源自古典拉丁语的cor，意为心。

近反义词

【近义词】

• center
• heart
• substance