dead center

基本解释

Photo Tip: Mentally divide your frame into thirds—down and across. Avoid positioning your subject dead center.
拍照提示：心里面把取景框纵横三分，避免你的主体出现在死气沉沉的中心。
Within 40 minutes I was booked into my hotel, which was in close proximity to some of the city's best attractions, and just around the corner from the city's dead center -- the imposing Bell Tower.
在40分钟内，我订了宾馆，它离这个城市的最引人入胜的景点很近，就在这个城市肃穆的中心――壮丽的钟楼附近。
The eye then climbs up toward the middle peak at dead center top, then finally to the upper left of the frame.
眼睛朝着正当中的中间高峰向上攀登，于是终于爬到了到画面的左上角。

Now, probably the form of power that we most readily associated with John Milton involves his position at the dead center of the English literary canon.
我们最容易由约翰·弥尔顿,联想到的力量形式很可能,与他处在英国文学经典的中心位置有关。
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Mumtaz Mahal's white marble casket sits dead center inside the tomb.
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Dead center was a long table, surrounded by approximately twenty chairs, and, on the table, empty and half-empty cups, a few books, class logs, and some pamphlets.
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The trick was to connect the ball to the rest of the mouse at the two points where there was the least friction—right where his fingertips had been, dead center on either side of the ball.
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