nub

• n. 要點；小塊，結節；瘤；殘根

來自knob的方言變體，引申詞義結，把手，中心。

nub (n.)

"knob, lump, bump," 1590s, variant of dialectal knub, probably a variant of knob. Figurative meaning "point, gist" first recorded 1834.

1. That, I think, is the nub of the problem.

我想那才是問題的要害。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Here we reach the nub of the argument.

現在我們談到了爭論的核心部分。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The nub of the matter is that business is declining.

事情的實質是工商業在萎縮。

來自《權威詞典》

4. That's the nub of it.

關鍵就在這裏.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

5. She respected Andrew's wisdom, his knack of going directly to the nub of any situation.

她遵重安德魯的才智和他在任何情況下都能一語道破的本領.

來自辭典例句