Middle
['mɪd(ə)l] or ['mɪdl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); 'young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable'.
(noun.) an intermediate part or section; 'A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end'- Aristotle.
(noun.) time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; 'the middle of the war'; 'rain during the middle of April'.
(verb.) put in the middle.
(adj.) between an earlier and a later period of time; 'in the middle years'; 'in his middle thirties' .
(adj.) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; 'Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500'; 'Middle Gaelic' .
黛朵錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
(a.) Intermediate; intervening.
(a.) The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion
(a.) the waist.
艾玛手打
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Mean, medial, half way, between the extremes.
n. Midst, centre, central part.
手打:波莉
同義詞及反義詞:
[See MEAN]
埃米尔校對
解釋/意思:
adj. equally distant from the extremes: intermediate: intervening: (gram.) intermediate between active and passive reflexive.—n. the middle point or part: midst: central portion waist.—adjs. Midd′le-aged of or about the middle period of life (from about 35 to 50); Midd′le-class pertaining to or included in the middle class.—ns. Midd′le-earth (Shak.) the earth considered as placed between the upper and lower regions; Midd′leman one who stands in the middle between two persons: an agent who does business between two parties: in Ireland one who rents land in large tracts and lets it in small portions to the peasantry.—adjs. Midd′lemost Mid′most (B.) nearest the middle; Midd′le-sized of middle or average size.—ns. Midd′le-watch the period between midnight and 4 A.M.; Midd′le-weight a boxer or jockey of intermediate weight between light and heavy weight.—adj. Midd′ling of middle rate state size or quality: about equally distant from the extremes: moderate: (Scot.) not in very good health: fairly well or prosperous.—adv. moderately.—n. Midd′lingness mediocrity.—n.pl. Midd′lings the coarser part of ground wheat.—Middle Ages the time between the downfall of the western Roman empire about 476 A.D. and the Reformation in the first quarter of the 16th century or even earlier—in the later half of the preceding century when printing was invented America discovered and the revival of learning took place; Middle class that part of the people which comes between the nobility and the working-class; Middle distance (same as Middle ground); Middle English English as spoken and written from 1350 to 1500 or 1550; Middle ground the central portion of a picture—that is between the foreground and background; Middle Kingdom China; Middle passage the voyage across the Atlantic from Africa to the West Indies which was a time of horror on board a slave-ship; Middle States New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware; Middle term (logic) that term of a syllogism which appears both in the major premise and the minor but not in the conclusion.—Middle-class schools schools for the higher education of the middle class intermediate between the primary schools and the large public schools or the universities.
錄入:特丽萨
例句/造句/用法:
- I took passage on a steamer at Ripley, Ohio, for Pittsburg, about the middle of May, 1839. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- How can you wait in this dress in the middle of the streets? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried-- Silence! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- This he placed in the middle of the floor and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- They rested on some straw in a loft until the middle of the night, and then rode forward again when all the town was asleep. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- After several severe skirmishes, in which the enemy was defeated, General Steele reached Camden, which he occupied about the middle of April. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Affery, who had watched her in terror, darted to her in the middle of the room, caught hold of her dress, and went on her knees to her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The tube is 52 feet long, 4 feet diameter in the middle, tapering to a little over 3 feet at the ends. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- What about the gate in the middle of it? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- When the maid entered, about seven, there the unfortunate fellow was hanging in the middle of the room. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Some of the stone steps are foot-worn only on one end; others only on the other end; others only in the middle. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Was that your business at Mr Lightwood's chambers in the middle of the night? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When we look at near objects, the muscles act in such a way that the lens bulges out, and becomes thick in the middle and of the right curvature to focus the near object upon the screen. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The fighting on the Bainsizza plateau was over and by the middle of the month the fighting for San Gabriele was about over too. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Near the churchyard, and in the middle of a garden, stood a well-built though small house, which I had no doubt was the parsonage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
編輯:谢恩