middle
美 [ˈmɪd(ə)l] 
英 ['mɪd(ə)l]
- n.中间；中部；中央；中心
- adj.中间的；中央的；居中的；正中的
- 网络中等；中级的；中等的
词形变化
复数：middles 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [sing] 中间；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 中央有一个小岛的湖 |
| He was standing in the middle of the room. 他站在屋子的中间。 |
| The phone rang in the middle of the night. 半夜里响起了电话铃声。 |
| This chicken isn't cooked in the middle. 这只鸡还没有熟透。 |
| His picture was right/bang(= exactly) in the middle of the front page. 他的照片就登在头版的正中央。 |
| Take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle . 拿出一张纸，在中间画一条线。 |
| I should have finished by the middle of the week. 我在这周过半的时候应该就能完成。 |
2. | [c][ususing]
腰部a person's waist |
| He grabbed her around the middle. 他拦腰抱住她。 |
1. | [obn] 中间的；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. 钢笔在中间那个抽屉里。 |
| She's the middle child of three. 三个孩子，她是老二。 |
| He was very successful in his middle forties. 他在四十五六岁时很成功。 |
| a middle-sized room 中等大小的房间 |
| the middle-income groups in society 社会中等收入阶层 |
习惯用语
be in the middle of sth/of doing sth
| They were in the middle of dinner when I called. 我打电话的时候，他们正在吃饭。 |
| I'm in the middle of writing a difficult letter. 我正在写一封很难写的信。 |
the middle of nowhere
偏远的地方a place that is a long way from other buildings, towns, etc.
| She lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere. 她住在一个偏远的小农场。 |
split/divide sth down the middle
平分；分为相等的两半to divide sth into two equal parts
| The country was split down the middle over the strike(= half supported it, half did not) . 国内支持和反对罢工的人势均力敌。 |
(steer, take, etc.) a middle course|(find, etc.) a/the middle way
（走）中间道路；（取）中庸之道；（采取）折中办法(to take/find) an acceptable course of action that avoids two extreme positions
英汉解释
n. | 4. 【数】中项;【逻】中名词,媒辞;【语】(希腊语动词的)中间态 5. (报纸等的)文学性短文,中间读物;【商】中级(货)品 6. 【板】防守中柱(middle stump)的球棍拿法 |
adj. | |
英英解释
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，当远东的一个商场在销售女式的服装时，一个高贵的中年男子决定给他的夫人也买一件。
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.
在深夜离岸甚远，船到了湖中心的时候，忽然起了暴风，甚至船被波浪掩盖。
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.
真正把罗马主教视为类似于教皇这样的角色的，根据我们的了解，是在中世纪出现的。
If an upholstered seat for two or more people is called a settee or a couch, they are no higher them middle-middle.
如果他们将那种能坐两个人或者更多人的椅子为“settee”或者“coach”，那么他们所属的不会高于中层阶级。
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：厨房是为仆人准备的，抱负远大的中产阶级可不愿与之有丝毫的沾边。
He took to ringing us up in the middle of the night.
他开始习惯在半夜给我们打电话。
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.
他很会体谅人：要是我们到星期二左右手头紧了起来，他就赊给我一些食品杂货，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.
亚当·史密斯形容英国是一个全民皆商的国家，对能够对中产阶级寄予怎样的希望有着清楚的认识。
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红色上唇，就连最没有激情的青年男子见了，也要神魂颠倒，痴迷如醉，为之疯狂。
The United States' yawning income gap between the middle class and the top percentile isn't unique. It's part of a global phenomenon.
美国中产阶级和顶尖富人之间巨大的收入差距不是独有的。它是一个全球现象的一部分。
In the middle of your regular walk, walk as fast as you can for a minute or so.
在你经常的步行当中，试着以最快的速度走个一、两分钟。
Joshua: True. It would be distracting to worry about your skirt flying up in the middle of a fight.
真的。这会让人因担心裙子在打斗之中飞起来而分神。
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，他在中东将会积极争取实现和平的目标。奥巴马说，对世界不应该持有悲观的态度。
President Obama's supporters say he is trying to take a more "even-handed" approach to the Middle East conflict than his predecessors.
奥巴马总统的支持者说，和他的前任相比，奥巴马试图在解决中东冲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.
当他将蒙眼布拿开时，已经孤身于丛林之中，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.
所以下次当你在半夜醒来，想想你工业时期前的祖先们并且放松下来。
However, the research of vocabulary teaching and learning in middle schools is often neglected due to its difficulty.
然而，中学阶段的词汇教学研究，由于其难度大，往往受到冷落。
For now, at least, all Middle East roads seem to lead through China.
至少到目前为止，似乎所有中东路线都通向中国。
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!
小姑娘感到多么惊奇啊！在那朵花的坐着小小的男子！――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!
他说他看见一名过路的中年妇女对打人男子说：他就是个农村小孩！
The United States intended to steer a course "down the middle" .
美国打算采取“中间”路线。
The airborne magnetic gradiometer came into use in the middle 1960s.
航空磁梯度仪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.
这些发现有助于建构中世纪的生活画面。
Do we want to know about the feelings of a middle-class woman with a taste for vice?
我们难道要知道一个自甘堕落的中产阶级女人的各种感情吗？
The middle-class woman of the late eighteenth century had good reason to accept and magnify these values of sensibility and passionate love.
十八世纪后期的中产阶级妇女完全有理由接受并赞美这些感情和炽热爱情价值。
I thought "Mr. Britling" is a very good study of the English middle-class soul.
依我看，《勃列得林先生》这本书是对英国中产阶级灵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.
在构成自我的，互不协调的混和体中，黄色真可能是一匹马拉的大车，而感激之情则是下星期三、四。
It was now the middle of May, and the morning was remarkably serene.
眼下正是5月中旬，晨光异常静谧。
He cut a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road.
他高兴得在路中央蹦跳了几下。
Events of the middle 1970s have demonstrated how well founded this concern can be.
本世纪70年代中期发生的一系列事件，充分表明了它的影响所及。
Pisa was a republic in the middle ages, with a government of her own, armies and navies of her own, and a great commerce.
在中古时代，比萨是个共和国，有自己的政府，有自己的陆海军，还有很发达的商业。
She was a woman who, one felt, had never been handsome, but now, in middle age, was of distinctly prepossessing appearance.
她是这样的一个女人：人们觉得，她以前并不漂亮，而现在，人到中年，却显然有了一种令人喜悦的外貌。
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，不列颠群岛上大多数居民甚至不知道他有一个中间的名字。
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.
我认为，在我们没有弄清楚苏联在中东下一步的打算之前，就宣布这样一个决定是非常不明智的。
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.
他说，危机好比一条中间打上结的绳子，两头越拉，绳结越紧。
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! "
我说：“是不是没有什么东西属于不可侵犯的了？星期天早上，不知身在何处，还摆脱不了这种野马狂！”
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.
当他告诉大家说，我在学校里演出的那场爱情剧中摔了一跤时，我真窘得要命。
It was one of the most sweeping indictments of American capitalism ever drawn by a middle-class group.
这是中产阶级集团草拟的对美国资本主义最彻底的控诉书之一。
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，一心想着堂兄弟的欧也妮，似乎听见一个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·霍尔顿·贝尔在生活和事业上一直相当心满意足，不料到了中年，却时去运衰，屡遭不幸。
In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it.
法庭正中放着一张桌子，桌上有一大盘果馅饼。
Nixon shared many of the prejudices of uprooted, California lower-middle class from which he had come.
尼克松出身于被赶出家园的加利福尼亚较下层的中产阶级，他具有这个阶级的许多偏见。
A breath of the countryside seemed to be wafted into that panelled room in the middle of London.
一股乡村的气息仿佛吹进了这间处在伦敦中心的带镶板的房子里。
I woke in the middle of then night and heard someone prowling about in the garden.
我半夜里醒来听到有人在花园里蹑手蹑脚地走动。
I don't have to drive anybody in the middle of the night, so don't try to suck me in.
深更半夜我谁也不拉，你就别想吸住我拉你了。
The middle East, with its vast oil resources, was still another region whose safety was important to America.
中东及其丰富石油资源的安全，对于美国甚属重要。
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.
炼金术始于中东，到17世纪末，便盛行于中东地区和欧洲。
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来。
The middle levels of Defense were now taking advantage of our injunction for secrecy to drag their feet.
我们国防部的中层官员们却利用我们关于保密的禁令而拖着不办。
One unskilled American middle manager observed, "It's tough choreographing a ballet when you've been trained as a boxer. "
一个不熟练的美国中级经理评论说：“当你已经被训练成拳击家时，是很难设计芭蕾舞的舞蹈动作的。”
In the middle of a dance she suddenly walks off the floor, with tears in her eyes.
一场舞刚跳了一半她突然走出舞场，眼泪涌出来。
The US government has poured money and people into trying to understand the Middle East.
美国政府将大量的人力财力投入到对中东的理解探索中。
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.
就像住房泡沫掩盖了中产阶级的困境一样，它也在短时间内隐藏了许多男人在走下坡路的状况。
Well uh, if you want it to look more like a lollipop, you could put a swirl in the middle.
哦，如果想让它看起来更像棒棒糖，得在中间加一个圈儿。
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.
在阶梯底端，他看到了一座花园，花园中间摆了一张桌子，桌上有一盏灯，魔术师就是要这盏灯。
In the preface to one of his plays Bernard Shaw remarks that people are more superstitious today than they were in the Middle Age.
萧伯纳在他一个剧本的前言中提出这样的看法：今天人们比在中实际时更加迷信。
When she opened her eyes again, she found that she had landed in a tree in the middle of the jungle.
当她再次睁开眼，她发现她落在了丛林中的一棵树上。
Russia, although a member of the Quartet, is looking at the Middle East as a means of strengthening its own global position.
尽管俄罗斯是四方会谈中的一方，它却将中东看做加强其国际地位的一枚棋子。
He said it would be wrong to draw comparison between the situations in the Middle East and north Africa and that of China.
他还指出，把中国比作中东和北非的情形是错误的对比。
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，民主的成本相当于穷人为推迟进入中产阶级的支付的价格。
A pair of middle-aged married couple with two beautiful daughters, but they have been longing for the Health and a son.
有一对中年夫妇，育有二个非常美丽的女儿，但是他们一直向往著生个儿子。
On reaching the middle of the football pitch, Fan later confided to his blog, "I found none of my pupils were with me. "
范美忠后来在他的博客中说，当他到了操场上“发现我的学生都没有跟来”。
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。下次你见到有人骑马过来就别在路当中逛。
We have no idea how the string of revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa this year is going to turn out.
我们不知道今年发生在中东和北非地区的一连串革命会发展到什么地步。
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.
当然在中卫这个位置上活动范围不能移动得太远，所以等他回来后我们还有继续观察，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.
夜半时分，朱迪丝用肘推醒了我，并大声叫我起床。我的最初感觉就是喧哗声和撞击声。
One day, perhaps, an educated middle class may emerge to call for more accountability and a bigger slice of the wealth.
也许某天，受过高等教育的中产阶级会站出来要求承担更多的责任，分割更多的财富。
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.
假如我是一名叫李华滴中学生，写信给某报社的主持人，请求帮助解决长期困扰我的问题。
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.
奥巴马说，他的策略的另一方面是美国与包括伊朗和叙利亚在内的所有中东国家协作。
The Middle-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals, it is often held in September or October.
中东中秋节是中国传统节日之一，它往往是举行在九月或十月。
By the middle of January the Russians were deeply perturbed, and raised the issue in Berlin.
到1月中旬，俄国人非常焦灼不安，于是在柏林提出了这一问题。
The country in mid-1972 had good reasons of its own for not rocking the Middle East boat.
那个国家在一九七二年间没有在中东问题上捣乱有其自身的原因。
He divided his hair at the side and not in the middle.
他的头发是偏分的而不是中间分的。
What had happened underlined his strictures of the night before: We should keep hands off the Middle East.
这件事更加说明了他头天晚上的叮嘱：我们不应当过问中东的事。
The story goes back to the middle of the nineteenth century.
故事追溯到19世纪中叶。
Interlibrary lending was not unknown in the Middle Ages.
中世纪已经有了馆际互借。
He lectures on Chinese history in a middle school.
他在一所中学讲授中国历史。
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
妻子是年轻人的情人，中年人的伴侣，老年人的看护。
Mr. Vincy himself had expensive Middle March habits.
文西先生过着米德尔马契式的阔绰生活。
The guitarist went AWOL in the middle of the recording.
录音录到一半吉他手溜走了。
