1610s, from French pivot, from Old French pivot "hinge pin, pivot" (12c.), also "penis," of uncertain origin. Figurative sense of "central point" is recorded from 1813.
pivot (v.)
by 1841, from French pivoter and from pivot (n). Related: Pivoted; pivoting.
雙語例句
1. West Africa was the pivot of the cocoa trade.
西非是可可豆貿(mào)易的中心。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. Pivot , for instance , argues that China's infrastructure has already reached an advanced level.
3. 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.