hub
noun/hʌb/
/hʌb/
- a central airport, station, etc. that operates many services
中心,枢纽(如机场、车站等) - The airport has become an international hub.
这个机场已成为国际枢纽。 - It's the city's major transportation hub for bus and rail.
它是该市主要的公共汽车和铁路交通枢纽。 - Major hub airports have grown up all over the world.
世界各地的主要枢纽机场不断涌现。
- The airport has become an international hub.
- [usually singular] hub (of something) the central and most important part of a particular place or activity
(某地或活动的)中心,核心 - the commercial hub of the city
城市的商业中心 - The kitchen was the hub of family life.
厨房是家庭生活的中心。 - to be at the hub of things (= where things happen and important decisions are made)
在核心部门
- the commercial hub of the city
- the central part of a wheel
轮毂
Word Originearly 16th cent. (denoting a shelf at the side of a fireplace used for heating pans): of unknown origin (compare with hob).