nave

n.
1. navel肚脐。
△Mac.1.2.22:“Till he unseamed himfrom the nave to the chops.”他一剑从他的肚脐直划到下巴。
2. hub of a wheel轮毂，轮轴。
△Ham.2.2.526 (496):“And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven As low as to the fiends!”然后把那个轮轴从天山上推滚下去，直落到地狱的恶魔当中！
△2H.IV.2.4.278 (255):“Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cutoff?”(nave: with a pun on “knave”，Falstaff being asround as a wheel. )这个圆轱辘车轴是不是想让人把他的两只耳朵割掉？

nave中堂

通常指门廊至圣坛之间的部分，包括侧廊，供俗人用。哥特式教堂的中堂是整个建筑的主体部分。