A circle without a center is inconceivable.

一个没有圆心的圆是无法想像的。

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The Grove shopping center, which opened in 2002, performs all the functions of a mall without looking at all like one.

2002年开业的格罗夫购物中心看起来一点也不像购物商城，却拥有购物商城所有的功能特点。

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This opera was first performed in nineteen forty-two at a center for Jewish children without parents in Prague,Czechoslovakia.

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Miami plays without a true center, and Bosh often ends up in the same general spots on offense as a guard would.

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Without a strong center, the shell of whatever else was cobbled together to make the show look so good will collapse.

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The Heat ranked fourth-worst in offensive-rebounding and eighth-worst in defensive rebounding because they almost always played without a true center in their small-ball lineup.

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