• n. 中心；轂；木片
• n. (Hub)人名；(捷)胡布

車輪工匠行話，可能來自hubbe,大塊，來自PIE*kap,抓住，持，握，詞源同capable,heave,hob.引申詞義輪軸，中心。

hub

hub: [17] Hub is one of those words that emerge unheralded from the undergrowth of language, its forbears uncertain. It seems originally to have meant ‘lump’, and is probably ultimately the same word as hob [16]. This was at first spelled hub and may have denoted a lump of clay used as a bakestone, or a brick or clay projection at the back of a fire on which things were placed to keep warm. And hobnail [16] is etymologically a nail with a large ‘lumpy’ head.
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hub (n.)

"solid center of a wheel," 1640s, perhaps from hubbe, originally "lump," the source of hob of a fireplace and hobnail, as in boots. A wheelwright's word, not generally known or used until c. 1828; it reached wider currency in connection with bicycles. Meaning "center of interest or activity or importance" first recorded 1858 in writings of Oliver W. Holmes, and originally especially of Boston.

"Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system." [O.W. Holmes, "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"]

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"[E]verybody knows that Boston used to be called the Hub, meaning the hub of the universe. It may still be the hub, because the center of a wheel moves slowly." [J.P. Marquand, "Life," March 24, 1941]

1. the commercial hub of the city

城市的商業(yè)中心

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

2. Chicago is a hub of airline traffic.

芝加哥是航運中心.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. As a hub of finance and communications, Paris is now almost equal to London.

作為一個金融和交通中心，巴黎現(xiàn)在幾乎可媲美倫敦。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Lee was at the hub of some incisive attacks in the second half.

在下半場，李組織了幾次快速進攻。

來自柯林斯例句

5. London was on the rise, starting to replace Amsterdam as the hub of world trade.

倫敦正在崛起，開始取代阿姆斯特丹成為世界貿(mào)易的中心。

來自辭典例句