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middle

美['mɪdl]  英['mɪdl]
adj.  中等的;中间的;中期的
n.  中间
vt.  放在中间;把 ... 对折
  过去式:middled  过去分词:middled  现在分词:middling  第三人称单数:middles
  近义词:centre,focus,heart,mean,central,inner,medial,mediate,mid,beginning,edge,

详细释义

adj.(形容词)
  1. 中古的
  2. 中间的,居中的,当中的
  3. 中等的,中级的
  4. 中央的,正中的
  5. 中期的
  6. 中部的
  7. 中庸的
  8. (希腊语法)中间态的
  9. 中名词的
n.(名词)
  1. 中央,正中
  2. 中间,中部
  3. <口>腰部,人体的中部
  4. 中间物
  5. 中途
  6. 媒介物
  7. 中人,中间人,调解人
  8. 中间派
  9. 【逻】中名词
  10. 【语】中间态
  11. 【数】中项
v.(动词)
  1. 把...放在中间,放在中间
  2. 把 ... 对折,对折

双解释义

n.(名词)
  1. [S][U]中部,中间 the central part, point, or position
adj.(形容词)
  1. [A]中部的,中间的 in or nearly in the centre; at the same distance from two or more points, or from the beginning and end of sth

英英释义

Noun
  1. an area that is approximately central within some larger region;

    "it is in the center of town" "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle" "they were in the eye of the storm"

  2. an intermediate part or section;

    "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"

  3. the middle area of the human torso (usually in front);

    "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"

  4. time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period;

    "the middle of the war" "rain during the middle of April"

Adjective
  1. being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series;

    "adolescence is an awkward in-between age" "in a mediate position" "the middle point on a line"

  2. equally distant from the extremes
  3. 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"

  4. between an earlier and a later period of time;

    "in the middle years" "in his middle thirties"

Verb
  1. put in the middle

组词搭配

介词+~
  1. above the middle of his class属全班中上水平
  2. at the middle在…中间
  3. from the middle of从…中央
  4. in the middle在…中间
~+介词
  1. middle of next month下月中旬
  2. middle of the 19th century十九世纪中叶
~+名词
  1. middle age中年
  2. middle class中产阶级
  3. middle house中间那幢房子
  4. middle man中间人,经纪人
  5. middle school中学
  6. the M- Ages中世纪
  7. the M- America中美洲
  8. the M- East中东
  9. the M- English中古英语
  10. the M- West(美国)中西部

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. There are 300 students or so in this middle school.这所中学大约有300个学生。
  2. He was not much above the middle height.他不过中等身材。
  3. He made a bid for middle class support.他努力试图得到中产阶级的支持。
  4. The man has reached middle age.这人已到了中年。
  5. What is your father's middle name?你爸爸中间的名字什么?
  6. Which book do you want? I'll have the middle one.你要哪本书?我要中间的那一本。
  7. 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。
用作名词(n.)
  1. The sheets have worn thin in the middle.床单的中间部分磨薄了。
  2. He planted roses in the middle of the garden.他在花园中间种上玫瑰。
用作及物动词(vt.)
  1. Uruguay and Haiti hung uncertainly in the middle.乌拉圭和海地则在中间摇摆。

词语用法

n.(名词)
    middle用作名词时,意思是“中间,当中,中部”,既可用于空间,又可用于时间。既可指物体两端或两边相等距离的中央或中间部分,也可指一段时间或行动始末的中间一段。前面一般加定冠词the,只用单数形式。其后一般接介词of。 middle也可表示身体的“中部,腰部”,跟waist意思相近。 in the middle of v -ing意思是“正忙于做某事”。
adj.(形容词)
    middle用作形容词时,意思是“中部的,中间的,当中的”。 middle通常不用于比较级和最高级形式,如确需比较,可用more, less, nearly修饰,是定语形容词,在句中只用作定语。 middle可表示孩子的排行。

常见错误

n.(名词)
  1. 彼得是中午回来的。

    Peter came back in the centre of the day.

    Peter came back in the middle of the day.

    middle和 centre都有“中间”“中央”的含义,但 middle表示的范围较大,是大致中心位置或中心区域, centre 表示正中心。

    这个城市是国家的商业中心。

    The city is the commercial middle of the whole country.

    The city is the commercial centre of the whole country.

    centre 可以用于引申含义的“中心”, middle则不可以。

    在实验过程中,那个科学家突然发现了真知。

    In the middle of his tests, the scientist burst on the truth.

    At the middle of his tests, the scientist burst on the truth.

    当他醒来时他发现自己在大森林里。

    When he regained consciousness, he found himself at the middle of the forest.

    When he regained consciousness, he found himself in the middle of the forest.

    in the middle of一般接表示“地点”的名词; 而at the middle of后才接表示“时间”的名词(in the middle of the day〔night〕例外)。

adj.(形容词)
  1. 淄博是山东省的一个中等城市。

    Zibo is a middle city in Shandong Province.

    Zibo is a medium-sized city in Shandong Province.

    middle 是处在两者的“中间的”意思,如middle school, middle of the month〔year〕等。medium 指按某一标准来说,属于不大不小、中等,可指形状、质量、数量、规模、价值等。“中等城市”应译作medium-sized city。

    这个城镇的历史可回溯到中世纪。

    The history of the town dates back to the Middle Age.

    The history of the town dates back to the Middle Ages.

    middle age(单数,首字母不大写)指“(人的)中年期”。表示“(欧洲历史上的) 中世纪”应该用the Middle Ages(复数,首字母大写)。

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