axis

UK:  ['æksɪs]

US:  ['æksɪs]

复数：axes  

n.

1.轴,轴线

2.〔天〕自转轴

3.轴,斜轴,转轴;轴部

4.轴;中心线

5.枢椎

6.核心

7.【政治学】轴心〔国家间的联盟,特指第二次大战中德义日等国的联盟〕

8.【化学】晶轴,【物理学】光轴

9.【植物;植物学】茎轴

10.【解剖学】第二颈椎,第二脊骨

1 . if society were a state coach, the etiquette would be the wheels and axis, on which only the coach could roll forward.
假定社会是一辆贵宾车，礼仪好比轮子与轴，马车只能靠它们才能滚滚前进。

2 . Had the Axis powers finished off the British in north Africa first, they could have attacked Russia from the south as well as the east.
要是轴心国能首先在北非将英军剿灭，他们就可以从南线和东线包抄俄国。

3 . Scale and position it roughly as shown in the previous figure. Have the bottom edge of the door lie roughly along the X-axis.
按照前面的图粗略的比例确定它的位置。让门的底边粗略地接近X轴线。

4 . Imagine it like this: If you spin something, the direction of the axis tends to wobble.
这样想一下：如果你旋转什么东西，这个轴的方向将会变化。

5 . In OLAP processing, slicing and dicing is often performed along a time axis to analyze trends and find time-based patterns in the data.
在OLAP的加工，切片和切割往往是演出沿着时间轴来分析发展趋势，并抽出时间为基础的模式中的数据。