The mother is often the pivot of family life. 母亲往往是家庭生活的中心人物。
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。
Marriage might...and would...stultify my mental processes.I'm not properly pivoted that way...and so must I be chained in a kennel like a monk? 结婚也许要把我的精神变成荒谬”我是不适于结婚的……那么我便应该象和尚似的关在狗笼里么?
Pivoting 90 degrees, Raab pans westward across the sagebrush-stubbled desert until he spots an identical tube and another building, also four kilometers distant. 转过90度,拉布眼光向左移动,越过了点缀著一丛丛山艾树的沙漠,直到他看见了相同的管道,以及坐落在四公里外的另一栋建筑物。
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。