GIVE ATTENTION TO STH 给予某物关注, [I,T] to give special attention to one particular person or thing, or to make people do this

（把…）集中（于）:

He needs to focus more on his career.

他需要更加关注自己的事业。

She tried to focus her mind on her work.

她试图集中思想干活。

We need to focus public attention on this issue.

我们需要把公众的注意力集中到这个问题上来。

CAMERA / TELESCOPE 照相机/望远镜, [I,T] to point a camera or TELESCOPE at something, and change the controls slightly so that you can see that thing clearly

对准…调焦/调节…的焦距:

She turned the camera and focussed on Martin's face.

她转过镜头对准马丁的脸。

He focused his binoculars on the building opposite.

他把双筒望远镜对准对面的建筑物。

EYES 眼睛, [I,T] if your eyes focus, or if you focus your eyes, you look at something and can see it clearly

（把）〔眼睛〕对准，使聚焦:

All eyes focussed on her.

所有的眼睛都盯着她。

His eyes were focussed straight ahead.

他的双眼直愣愣地盯着前方。

LIGHT 光, [T] if you focus beams of light, you aim them onto a particular place

使聚焦; 使集中

[sing.] the thing, person, situation etc that people pay special attention to

焦点，重点

The focus of recent research has been on environmental issues.

最近研究的重点是环境问题。

The war in Bosnia had become the focus of media attention .

发生在波斯尼亚的战争已成为媒体关注的焦点。

The focus of interest in the series is what goes on in everyday life.

这部连续剧关注的焦点是日常的生活琐事。

I shall now turn to the main focus of this essay.

现在我来讲讲这篇文章的主要焦点。

Eggs became the focus for the food poisoning scare.

鸡蛋成了食物中毒恐慌的焦点。

The focus of the conference shifted from population growth to the education of women.

会议的重点由人口增长问题转移到了妇女教育问题。

[U] if your focus is on something, that is the thing you are giving most attention to

〔注意力的〕集中点，中心点:

Our main focus is on helping people get back into work.

我们的重点是帮助人们再就业。

a shift of focus

重心的转移

come into focus / bring sth into focus, if something comes into focus, or you bring it into focus, people start to talk about it and pay attention to it

成为焦点/使某事成为焦点:

These issues have recently come into sharp focus (=people have started to talk about them a lot) .

这些问题近来已成了热门的焦点。

in focus / out of focus, if a photograph or an instrument such as a camera is in focus, you can see the picture clearly. If it is out of focus, you cannot see the picture clearly.

〔照片或相机等〕焦点对准/没有对准，对焦/失焦

[U] the clearness of the picture seen through an instrument such as a camera

〔相机等成像的〕清晰度，焦点:

He raised his binoculars and adjusted the focus.

他举起望远镜，调整焦距。