Midway
['mɪdweɪ;mɪd'weɪ] or ['mɪd'we]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands.
(noun.) the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located.
厄纳校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course.
(a.) Being in the middle of the way or distance; as, the midway air.
(adv.) In the middle of the way or distance; half way.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I work about midway between the two places. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Various reasons conspired to cause the departure from Menlo Park midway in the eighties. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Their noses were but longitudinal slits in the center of their faces, midway between their mouths and ears. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Now divide the string into two equal parts by inserting the bridge midway between the two ends; and pluck either half as before. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Or, that if from a high tower two stones, one twice the weight of the other, should be pushed out at th e same moment, the larger would strike the ground while the smaller was still midway? 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It was nearly midway between the oak and the house. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Midway between the ends of the building a cross wall should be built, and on this a sill should be laid upon which to erect the partition which divides the silo into two compartments. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- They were on the brink of the Lock, about midway between the two sets of gates. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was sent to Mechanicsburg, some miles north-east of Haines' Bluff and about midway between the Big Black and the Yazoo. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Like the green Martians, they have an intermediary set of arms midway between their upper and lower limbs. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- That the wild outbursts of insurrection midway in the fifth decade failed and died away was not surprising, for the superincumbent deposits of tradition and convention were thick. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses to talk it over. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- In constructing the Britannia Bridge, Mr. Stephenson took advantage of a rock midway from shore to shore, whereon to erect the central pier. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Almost midway between the hopper and the bin is placed an electromagnet whose polar extension is so arranged as to be a little to one side of a stream of material falling from the hopper. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There came, when they were about midway on their journey, a heavy rush of hail, which in a few minutes pelted the streets clear, and whitened them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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