2012_05_17 Omphalos n. 中央點 The central point.

Word of the Day for Thursday, May 17, 2012
omphalos \OM-fuh-luhs\, noun:
1. The central point.
2. The navel; umbilicus.
3. Greek Antiquity. A stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, thought to mark the center of the earth.
To that incurable romantic the Trenton hovel was omphalos, the hub of existence, the center of mass.
 -- Ellen Queen, Halfway House
Yes; but if not of the earth, for earth's tenant Jerusalem was the omphalos of mortality.
 -- Thomas De Quincey, Suspiria de Profundies
From Greek, omphalos did not enter English until the 1850s when Thomas De Quincey used it in his work Suspiria de Profundis. It literally meant "navel."
浮飾\ OM复LUHS\，名詞：

1。中央點。
2。肚臍，肚臍。
3。古希臘。在德爾菲的阿波羅神廟在一個石頭，以為紀念地球的中心。

，不治之症浪漫的特倫頓小屋浮飾，存在的中心，重心。
- 愛倫皇后，中途之家

是的，但如果不是地球，是地球的租戶耶路撒冷死亡率浮飾。
- 托馬斯德昆西，Suspiria德Profundies

來自希臘，浮飾沒有輸入英文，直到19世紀50年代，當托馬斯德昆西在他的工作Suspiria深淵書簡。它的字面意思是“肚臍。”