来自古法语pivot,绞链，门合页。引申词义中心，枢轴，核心等。

1. West Africa was the pivot of the cocoa trade.

西非是可可豆贸易的中心。

2. Pivot , for instance , argues that China's infrastructure has already reached an advanced level.

例如,Pivot公司称中国的基础建设已经达到了先进的水平.

3. 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.

4. The pedal had sheared off at the pivot.

踏板在枢轴处断裂了。

5. Forming the pivot of the exhibition is a large group of watercolours.

整个展览的重点是一大组水彩画。