Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense cores, present participle coring, past tense, past participle cored
1N-COUNT [oft n NOUN]果心;核儿 The core of a fruit is the central part of it. It contains seeds or pips. 果心;核儿
Someone threw an apple core.
有人扔了一个苹果核。
Peel the pears and remove the cores.
将梨削皮去核。
2VERB 去掉…的果心;给(水果)去核 If you core a fruit, you remove its core. 去掉…的果心;给(水果)去核
...machines for peeling and coring apples. [VERB noun]
苹果削皮去核机
3N-COUNT [usually with poss](物体、建筑物或城市的)中心部分 The core of an object, building, or city is the central part of it. (物体、建筑物或城市的)中心部分
...the earth's core.
地核
The core of the city is a series of ancient squares. [+ of]
市中心是一座接一座古老的广场。
4N-SING (问题的)核心,要点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. (问题的)核心,要点
...the ability to get straight to the core of a problem. [+ of]
直击问题要害的能力
The notion that blacks comprise a problem is at the core of racist reasoning.
5N-SING [NOUN n]精髓;骨干 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. 精髓;骨干
We already have our core team in place.
我们的骨干团队已经就位了。
A core of about six staff would continue with the project. [+ of]
由大约6名职员组成的骨干队伍将继续该项目。
6N-SING [usually NOUN n]基础(课);核心(科目) In a school or college, core subjects are a group of subjects that have to be studied. 基础(课);核心(科目)
The core subjects are English, mathematics and science.
基础课是英文、数学和科学。
I'm not opposed to a core curriculum in principle, but I think requiring a foreign language is unrealistic.
原则上我不反对设置基础课程,但我认为要求掌握一门外语是不现实的。
...a core of nine academic subjects. [+ of]
包括9个学科的核心课程
7N-SING [usually NOUN n]主要业务;主要活动 The core businesses or the core activities of a company or organization are their most important ones. 主要业务;主要活动
The core activities of local authorities were reorganised.
地方政府的主要事务进行了调整。
The group plans to concentrate on six core businesses.
该集团打算主营6种业务。
However, the main core of the company performed outstandingly. [+ of]
9PHRASE 彻底的;十足的 You can use to the core to describe someone who is a very strong supporter of someone or something and will never change their views. For example, you can say that someone is Republican to the core . 彻底的;十足的
The villagers are royalist to the core.
那些村民是十足的保皇主义者。
10PHRASE 十分地;极为 If someone is shaken to the core or shocked to the core, they are extremely shaken or shocked. 十分地;极为
Leonard was shaken to the core; he'd never seen or read anything like it.