epicentre

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈep.ɪ.sen.tər]
• 美式音标 [ˈep.ə.sen.t̬ɚ]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.震中；中心
• =epicenter.

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Apparently we’re sitting at the epicentre of the world clash of civilisations.
  从表面上看，我们处在世界文化冲突的震中位置。
• The epicentre of the most lethal and destructive earthquake in Italy for almost 30 years lay a few kilometres outside the city.
  这是意大利近30年中遇难人数最多、破坏性最强的一次地震，震中距市区仅几公里远。
• The most serious was the national emergency office’s early assurance that there was no risk of a tsunami (it misplaced the quake’s epicentre as being on land).
  最严重的是国家危机事物办公室早前断言不会出现海啸危险（其误测了震中）。

权威例句

• Strathclyde's estates are the epicentre: five Glaswegians were killed in one 48-hour spell last month.
  ECONOMIST: Murder

词组短语

短语

• epicentre distance 震中距
• epicentre immigration 地震迁移
• Influenza epicentre 流感大流行警告
• earthquake epicentre 震中
• epicentre map 震中图

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• the point on the earth's surface directly above an earthquake or atomic explosion

柯林斯英英字典

• The epicentre of an earthquake is the place on the Earth's surface directly above the point where it starts, and is the place where it is felt most strongly.

专业释义

地球科学

• 震中 [亦作epicentrum]
• 震央
• 震中

医药科学

• 中枢