新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

core

英  [kɔː]
    

[ADJ, NOUN, VERB]

    ADJ. 形容词
  • 1核心(团体)

    A core team or a core group is a group of people who do the main part of a job or piece of work. Other people may also help, but only for limited periods of time.

    双语例句

    例:

    We already have our core team in place.

    我们的核心队伍已经就位。

    2必修的(课程)

    In a school or college, core subjects are a group of subjects that have to be studied.

    双语例句

    例:

    The core subjects are English, mathematics and science.

    必修课程为英语、数学和科学。

    例:

    I'm not opposed to a core curriculum in principle, but I think requiring a foreign language is unrealistic.

    原则上我不反对必修课程,但是我认为把外语列为必修课是不现实的。

    NOUN. 名词
  • cores

    1[C 可数名词]

    The core of a fruit is the central part of it that contains seeds.

    双语例句

    例:

    Someone threw an apple core.

    有人扔了一个苹果核。

    2[C 可数名词] 中心

    The core of an object, building, or city is the central part of it.

    近义词

    centre

    双语例句

    例:

    the Earth's core.

    地核。

    例:

    The core of the city is a series of ancient squares.

    这座城市的中心是一座接一座的古老的广场。

    3[SING 单数型名词] (问题的)核心

    The core of something such as a problem or an issue is the part of it that has to be understood or accepted before the whole thing can be understood or dealt with.

    近义词

    heart

    双语例句

    例:

    the ability to get straight to the core of a problem.

    直击问题核心的能力。

    例:

    At the core of this ideology was an ethnic nationalism.

    该意识形态的核心是种族民族主义。

    4[SING 单数型名词] 核心(工作或活动)

    The core businesses or the core activities of a company or organization are their most important ones.

    双语例句

    例:

    The core activities of social workers were reorganized.

    社工的核心工作被重新安排了。

    例:

    The group plans to concentrate on six core businesses.

    该集团计划将精力集中在六项核心业务上。

    例:

    However, the main core of the company performed outstandingly.

    然而,这家公司的核心业务却表现出色。

    VERB. 动词
  • cores , coring , cored

    1[T 及物动词] 去核

    If you core a fruit, you remove its core.

    双语例句

    例:

    machines for peeling and coring apples.

    苹果削皮去核机。