middle
美 [?m?d(?)l]
英 ['m?d(?)l] 
- n.中間;中部;中央;中心
- adj.中間的;中央的;居中的;正中的
- 網(wǎng)絡(luò)中等;中級的;中等的
詞形變化
復(fù)數(shù):middles 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | [sing] 中間;中部;中央;中心the part of sth that is at an equal distance from all its edges or sides; a point or a period of time between the beginning and the end of sth |
| a lake with an island in the middle 中央有一個小島的湖 |
| He was standing in the middle of the room. 他站在屋子的中間。 |
| The phone rang in the middle of the night. 半夜里響起了電話鈴聲。 |
| This chicken isn't cooked in the middle. 這只雞還沒有熟透。 |
| His picture was right/bang(= exactly) in the middle of the front page. 他的照片就登在頭版的正中央。 |
| Take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle . 拿出一張紙,在中間畫一條線。 |
| I should have finished by the middle of the week. 我在這周過半的時候應(yīng)該就能完成。 |
2. | [c][ususing]
腰部a person's waist |
| He grabbed her around the middle. 他攔腰抱住她。 |
1. | [obn] 中間的;中央的;居中的;正中的in a position in the middle of an object, group of objects, people, etc.; between the beginning and the end of sth |
| Pens are kept in the middle drawer. 鋼筆在中間那個抽屜里。 |
| She's the middle child of three. 三個孩子,她是老二。 |
| He was very successful in his middle forties. 他在四十五六歲時很成功。 |
| a middle-sized room 中等大小的房間 |
| the middle-income groups in society 社會中等收入階層 |
習(xí)慣用語
be in the middle of sth/of doing sth
| They were in the middle of dinner when I called. 我打電話的時候,他們正在吃飯。 |
| I'm in the middle of writing a difficult letter. 我正在寫一封很難寫的信。 |
the middle of nowhere
偏遠(yuǎn)的地方a place that is a long way from other buildings, towns, etc.
| She lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere. 她住在一個偏遠(yuǎn)的小農(nóng)場。 |
split/divide sth down the middle
平分;分為相等的兩半to divide sth into two equal parts
| The country was split down the middle over the strike(= half supported it, half did not) . 國內(nèi)支持和反對罷工的人勢均力敵。 |
(steer, take, etc.) a middle course|(find, etc.) a/the middle way
(走)中間道路;(取)中庸之道;(采取)折中辦法(to take/find) an acceptable course of action that avoids two extreme positions
英漢解釋
n. | 2. 中間物,媒介物;中人,中間人,調(diào)解人;中間派 4. 【數(shù)】中項(xiàng);【邏】中名詞,媒辭;【語】(希臘語動詞的)中間態(tài) 5. (報(bào)紙等的)文學(xué)性短文,中間讀物;【商】中級(貨)品 6. 【板】防守中柱(middle stump)的球棍拿法 |
adj. | |
英英解釋
例句
One day when women's dresses were on sale at the Far East Department Store, a dignified middle-aged man decided to get his wife a piece.
一天,當(dāng)遠(yuǎn)東的一個商場在銷售女式的服裝時,一個高貴的中年男子決定給他的夫人也買一件。
far offshore in the middle of the night, the ship to the center of the lake, when suddenly a storm of wind, the waves swept over the boat.
在深夜離岸甚遠(yuǎn),船到了湖中心的時候,忽然起了暴風(fēng),甚至船被波浪掩蓋。
The real recognition of the Bishop of Rome as sort of the Pope, in the way we think of it, that actually develops in the Middle Ages.
真正把羅馬主教視為類似于教皇這樣的角色的,根據(jù)我們的了解,是在中世紀(jì)出現(xiàn)的。
If an upholstered seat for two or more people is called a settee or a couch, they are no higher them middle-middle.
如果他們將那種能坐兩個人或者更多人的椅子為“settee”或者“coach”,那么他們所屬的不會高于中層階級。
That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.
原本就是正得其所嘛:廚房是為仆人準(zhǔn)備的,抱負(fù)遠(yuǎn)大的中產(chǎn)階級可不愿與之有絲毫的沾邊。
He took to ringing us up in the middle of the night.
他開始習(xí)慣在半夜給我們打電話。
He's very understanding: if I'm hard up by the middle of the week he'll always let me have a few groceries on tick till Friday.
他很會體諒人:要是我們到星期二左右手頭緊了起來,他就賒給我一些食品雜貨,直到星期五再付款。
Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class.
亞當(dāng)·史密斯形容英國是一個全民皆商的國家,對能夠對中產(chǎn)階級寄予怎樣的希望有著清楚的認(rèn)識。
To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening.
她的中部微微向上掀起的紅色上唇,就連最沒有激情的青年男子見了,也要神魂顛倒,癡迷如醉,為之瘋狂。
The United States' yawning income gap between the middle class and the top percentile isn't unique. It's part of a global phenomenon.
美國中產(chǎn)階級和頂尖富人之間巨大的收入差距不是獨(dú)有的。它是一個全球現(xiàn)象的一部分。
In the middle of your regular walk, walk as fast as you can for a minute or so.
在你經(jīng)常的步行當(dāng)中,試著以最快的速度走個一、兩分鐘。
Joshua: True. It would be distracting to worry about your skirt flying up in the middle of a fight.
真的。這會讓人因擔(dān)心裙子在打斗之中飛起來而分神。
Declaring that he would actively pursue the goal of peace in the Middle East, Obama said the world should not give in to pessimism.
他宣布,他在中東將會積極爭取實(shí)現(xiàn)和平的目標(biāo)。奧巴馬說,對世界不應(yīng)該持有悲觀的態(tài)度。
President Obama's supporters say he is trying to take a more "even-handed" approach to the Middle East conflict than his predecessors.
奧巴馬總統(tǒng)的支持者說,和他的前任相比,奧巴馬試圖在解決中東沖突上采取不偏不倚的方法。
When he took off the blindfold, he was in the middle of thick woods. By himself. All night long.
當(dāng)他將蒙眼布拿開時,已經(jīng)孤身于叢林之中,在那里要待上一夜。
So the next time you wake up in the middle of the night, think of your pre-industrial ancestors and relax.
所以下次當(dāng)你在半夜醒來,想想你工業(yè)時期前的祖先們并且放松下來。
However, the research of vocabulary teaching and learning in middle schools is often neglected due to its difficulty.
然而,中學(xué)階段的詞匯教學(xué)研究,由于其難度大,往往受到冷落。
For now, at least, all Middle East roads seem to lead through China.
至少到目前為止,似乎所有中東路線都通向中國。
But how surprised she was to see in the middle of the flower, a tiny little man, as white and transparent as if he had been made of crystal!
小姑娘感到多么驚奇啊!在那朵花的坐著小小的男子!――他是那么白皙和透明,好像是水晶做成的。
He said he saw a middle-aged woman, who was a passer-by, telling the attacker: 'He's just a village kid!
他說他看見一名過路的中年婦女對打人男子說:他就是個農(nóng)村小孩!
The United States intended to steer a course "down the middle" .
美國打算采取“中間”路線。
The airborne magnetic gradiometer came into use in the middle 1960s.
航空磁梯度儀在六十年代中期交付使用。
These finds help us build up a picture of life in the Middle Ages.
這些發(fā)現(xiàn)有助于建構(gòu)中世紀(jì)的生活畫面。
Do we want to know about the feelings of a middle-class woman with a taste for vice?
我們難道要知道一個自甘墮落的中產(chǎn)階級女人的各種感情嗎?
The middle-class woman of the late eighteenth century had good reason to accept and magnify these values of sensibility and passionate love.
十八世紀(jì)后期的中產(chǎn)階級婦女完全有理由接受并贊美這些感情和熾熱愛情價(jià)值。
I thought "Mr. Britling" is a very good study of the English middle-class soul.
依我看,《勃列得林先生》這本書是對英國中產(chǎn)階級靈魂的很好的分析研究。
In that mixture of incongruities that makes up the self yellow may very well be a horse and cart and gratitude the middle of next week.
在構(gòu)成自我的,互不協(xié)調(diào)的混和體中,黃色真可能是一匹馬拉的大車,而感激之情則是下星期三、四。
It was now the middle of May, and the morning was remarkably serene.
眼下正是5月中旬,晨光異常靜謐。
He cut a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road.
他高興得在路中央蹦跳了幾下。
Events of the middle 1970s have demonstrated how well founded this concern can be.
本世紀(jì)70年代中期發(fā)生的一系列事件,充分表明了它的影響所及。
Pisa was a republic in the middle ages, with a government of her own, armies and navies of her own, and a great commerce.
在中古時代,比薩是個共和國,有自己的政府,有自己的陸海軍,還有很發(fā)達(dá)的商業(yè)。
She was a woman who, one felt, had never been handsome, but now, in middle age, was of distinctly prepossessing appearance.
她是這樣的一個女人:人們覺得,她以前并不漂亮,而現(xiàn)在,人到中年,卻顯然有了一種令人喜悅的外貌。
Until 1954 the huge majority of the inhabitants of the British Isles had not even realized that he possessed a middle name.
1954年前,不列顛群島上大多數(shù)居民甚至不知道他有一個中間的名字。
I thought it unwise in the extreme to announce such a decision before we had any idea of the next Soviet move in the Middle East.
我認(rèn)為,在我們沒有弄清楚蘇聯(lián)在中東下一步的打算之前,就宣布這樣一個決定是非常不明智的。
The crisis, he said, was like a rope with a knot in the middle: the more each side was pulled, the more the knot would tighten.
他說,危機(jī)好比一條中間打上結(jié)的繩子,兩頭越拉,繩結(jié)越緊。
I said: "Is nothing sacred? It's Sunday morning, I'm in the middle of nowhere, and I can't get away from this Mustang mania! "
我說:“是不是沒有什么東西屬于不可侵犯的了?星期天早上,不知身在何處,還擺脫不了這種野馬狂!”
When he started telling everybody about the time I fell down in the middle of the love scene in the school play, I could have died.
當(dāng)他告訴大家說,我在學(xué)校里演出的那場愛情劇中摔了一跤時,我真窘得要命。
It was one of the most sweeping indictments of American capitalism ever drawn by a middle-class group.
這是中產(chǎn)階級集團(tuán)草擬的對美國資本主義最徹底的控訴書之一。
In the middle of the night Eugenie, whose thought were all for her cousin, thought she heard the groan of a dying man.
半夜里,一心想著堂兄弟的歐也妮,似乎聽見一個快要死去的人在那里呻吟。
Until adversity and tragedy befell him in middle age, William Holden Bell had lived a reasonably successful and happy life.
威廉·霍爾頓·貝爾在生活和事業(yè)上一直相當(dāng)心滿意足,不料到了中年,卻時去運(yùn)衰,屢遭不幸。
In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it.
法庭正中放著一張桌子,桌上有一大盤果餡餅。
Nixon shared many of the prejudices of uprooted, California lower-middle class from which he had come.
尼克松出身于被趕出家園的加利福尼亞較下層的中產(chǎn)階級,他具有這個階級的許多偏見。
A breath of the countryside seemed to be wafted into that panelled room in the middle of London.
一股鄉(xiāng)村的氣息仿佛吹進(jìn)了這間處在倫敦中心的帶鑲板的房子里。
I woke in the middle of then night and heard someone prowling about in the garden.
我半夜里醒來聽到有人在花園里躡手躡腳地走動。
I don't have to drive anybody in the middle of the night, so don't try to suck me in.
深更半夜我誰也不拉,你就別想吸住我拉你了。
The middle East, with its vast oil resources, was still another region whose safety was important to America.
中東及其豐富石油資源的安全,對于美國甚屬重要。
The art of alchemy began in the Middle East and prospered in that part of the world and in Europe till the end of the seventeenth century.
煉金術(shù)始于中東,到17世紀(jì)末,便盛行于中東地區(qū)和歐洲。
The middle-aged man dropped into a chair in a corner.
中年男子在角落里的椅子上坐下來。
The middle levels of Defense were now taking advantage of our injunction for secrecy to drag their feet.
我們國防部的中層官員們卻利用我們關(guān)于保密的禁令而拖著不辦。
One unskilled American middle manager observed, "It's tough choreographing a ballet when you've been trained as a boxer. "
一個不熟練的美國中級經(jīng)理評論說:“當(dāng)你已經(jīng)被訓(xùn)練成拳擊家時,是很難設(shè)計(jì)芭蕾舞的舞蹈動作的?!?/jz>
In the middle of a dance she suddenly walks off the floor, with tears in her eyes.
一場舞剛跳了一半她突然走出舞場,眼淚涌出來。
The US government has poured money and people into trying to understand the Middle East.
美國政府將大量的人力財(cái)力投入到對中東的理解探索中。
Just as the housing bubble papered over the troubles of the middle class, it also hid, for a time, the declining prospects of many men.
就像住房泡沫掩蓋了中產(chǎn)階級的困境一樣,它也在短時間內(nèi)隱藏了許多男人在走下坡路的狀況。
Well uh, if you want it to look more like a lollipop, you could put a swirl in the middle.
哦,如果想讓它看起來更像棒棒糖,得在中間加一個圈兒。
At the bottom, he saw a garden. In the middle of the garden was a table, and on the table was a lamp. The magician wanted this lamp.
在階梯底端,他看到了一座花園,花園中間擺了一張桌子,桌上有一盞燈,魔術(shù)師就是要這盞燈。
In the preface to one of his plays Bernard Shaw remarks that people are more superstitious today than they were in the Middle Age.
蕭伯納在他一個劇本的前言中提出這樣的看法:今天人們比在中實(shí)際時更加迷信。
When she opened her eyes again, she found that she had landed in a tree in the middle of the jungle.
當(dāng)她再次睜開眼,她發(fā)現(xiàn)她落在了叢林中的一棵樹上。
Russia, although a member of the Quartet, is looking at the Middle East as a means of strengthening its own global position.
盡管俄羅斯是四方會談中的一方,它卻將中東看做加強(qiáng)其國際地位的一枚棋子。
He said it would be wrong to draw comparison between the situations in the Middle East and north Africa and that of China.
他還指出,把中國比作中東和北非的情形是錯誤的對比。
She had understood that the cost of democracy is the price the poor pay in the delay of their entry into the middle class.
她知道,民主的成本相當(dāng)于窮人為推遲進(jìn)入中產(chǎn)階級的支付的價(jià)格。
A pair of middle-aged married couple with two beautiful daughters, but they have been longing for the Health and a son.
有一對中年夫婦,育有二個非常美麗的女兒,但是他們一直向往著生個兒子。
On reaching the middle of the football pitch, Fan later confided to his blog, "I found none of my pupils were with me. "
范美忠后來在他的博客中說,當(dāng)他到了操場上“發(fā)現(xiàn)我的學(xué)生都沒有跟來”。
Very proper. The next time you see a man on a horse, don't run out in the middle of the road till he's passed.
很有分寸。下次你見到有人騎馬過來就別在路當(dāng)中逛。
We have no idea how the string of revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa this year is going to turn out.
我們不知道今年發(fā)生在中東和北非地區(qū)的一連串革命會發(fā)展到什么地步。
Defenders don't run as far when they play in the middle so we'llhave a look at him when he gets back to see if he needs a little break.
當(dāng)然在中衛(wèi)這個位置上活動范圍不能移動得太遠(yuǎn),所以等他回來后我們還有繼續(xù)觀察,看看他是否需要休息。
In the middle of the night I was awakened by Judith poking me with her elbow and yelling at me to get up.
夜半時分,朱迪絲用肘推醒了我,并大聲叫我起床。我的最初感覺就是喧嘩聲和撞擊聲。
One day, perhaps, an educated middle class may emerge to call for more accountability and a bigger slice of the wealth.
也許某天,受過高等教育的中產(chǎn)階級會站出來要求承擔(dān)更多的責(zé)任,分割更多的財(cái)富。
If I were a named li hua drops of middle school students, write to a newspaper the host, ask for help resolve long-troubling my question.
假如我是一名叫李華滴中學(xué)生,寫信給某報(bào)社的主持人,請求幫助解決長期困擾我的問題。
Mr. Obama said another part of his strategy is for the U. S. to work with all the nations of the Middle East, including Iran and Syria.
奧巴馬說,他的策略的另一方面是美國與包括伊朗和敘利亞在內(nèi)的所有中東國家協(xié)作。
The Middle-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals, it is often held in September or October.
中東中秋節(jié)是中國傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日之一,它往往是舉行在九月或十月。
By the middle of January the Russians were deeply perturbed, and raised the issue in Berlin.
到1月中旬,俄國人非常焦灼不安,于是在柏林提出了這一問題。
The country in mid-1972 had good reasons of its own for not rocking the Middle East boat.
那個國家在一九七二年間沒有在中東問題上搗亂有其自身的原因。
He divided his hair at the side and not in the middle.
他的頭發(fā)是偏分的而不是中間分的。
What had happened underlined his strictures of the night before: We should keep hands off the Middle East.
這件事更加說明了他頭天晚上的叮囑:我們不應(yīng)當(dāng)過問中東的事。
The story goes back to the middle of the nineteenth century.
故事追溯到19世紀(jì)中葉。
Interlibrary lending was not unknown in the Middle Ages.
中世紀(jì)已經(jīng)有了館際互借。
He lectures on Chinese history in a middle school.
他在一所中學(xué)講授中國歷史。
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
妻子是年輕人的情人,中年人的伴侶,老年人的看護(hù)。
Mr. Vincy himself had expensive Middle March habits.
文西先生過著米德爾馬契式的闊綽生活。
The guitarist went AWOL in the middle of the recording.
錄音錄到一半吉他手溜走了。