central idea

基本解释

So, this central idea of food is the fundamental in all human existence.
所以食物的中心思想便是所有人类生存的根本。
The central idea is to avoid relying entirely on any single storage media or single location.
其中心思想是避免完全依赖单一存储介质和单一存储地点。
You could do what you wanted with the ten minutes—summarize the book, talk about its central idea, or discuss an aspect of particular interest—but you had to do it in these ten minutes.
十分钟内你想说什么就说什么，你可以概述本书的内容，谈谈该书的中心思想，或是讨论你特别感兴趣的每个方面，但一切都必须限制在十分钟内。

This idea is central to much of Edith Wharton's best writing.
And the central idea is that there is one proper response to God's mighty acts on behalf of Israel, and that is resolute observance of the book of the Torah of Moses, without intermingling with the peoples that remain.
其中心思想是没有恰当的回应,对于上帝代表以色列的无上举动，还有对摩西五经的绝对遵守，不可与你们中间所剩下的这些国民搀杂。
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So this is the central idea of calculus, right?
这是微积分的核心思想,对吗
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The central idea is that when reading a story, you replace yourself as the main character.
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