pivoted

The mother is often the pivot of family life.

母亲往往是家庭生活中心人物。

The success of the project pivots on investment from abroad.

这个工程成功主要依靠外来投资。

The novel pivots around a long conversation between two characters.

这部小说是两个人物对话为中心展开。

Marriage might...and would...stultify my mental processes.I'm not properly pivoted that way...and so must I be chained in a kennel like a monk?

结婚也许要把我精神变成荒谬”我是不适于结婚……那么我便应该象和尚似关在狗笼里么?

Pivoting 90 degrees, Raab pans westward across the sagebrush-stubbled desert until he spots an identical tube and another building, also four kilometers distant.

过90度，拉布眼光向左移动，越过了点缀著一丛丛山艾树沙漠，直到他看见了相同管道，落在四公里外另一栋建筑物。

The smaller of its hands occasionally slipped round on the pivot,and thus,though the minutes were told with precision,nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.

表上时针在轴上滑动,这样,虽然分钟仍很准确,但是点钟就没有人能完全肯定了。