hub
noun /hʌb/
/hʌb/
- a central airport, station, etc. that operates many services
中央机场、车站等，提供多种服务 - The airport has become an international hub.
该机场已成为国际枢纽。 - It's the city's major transportation hub for bus and rail.
这是该市公共汽车和铁路的主要交通枢纽。 - Major hub airports have grown up all over the world.
全球各大枢纽机场纷纷崛起。
- The airport has become an international hub.
- [usually singular] hub (of something) the central and most important part of a particular place or activity
（某地或活动的）中心，核心 - the commercial hub of the city
城市的商业中心 - The kitchen was the hub of family life.
厨房是家庭生活的中心。 - to be at the hub of things (= where things happen and important decisions are made)
在核心部门
- the commercial hub of the city
- enlarge imagethe central part of a wheel
轮毂
词源early 16th cent. (denoting a shelf at the side of a fireplace used for heating pans): of unknown origin (compare with hob).