英汉词典

middle 基本解释

• adj. 中间的，中部的；中级的，中等的
• n. 中间，中央；腰部
• vt. 把…放在中间，把…对折
• vi. 放在中间，对折

middle 词态变化

middle 中文词源

来自古英语middel,来自Proto-Germanic*medjaz,来自PIE*medhyos,中间的，词源同medial,mezzo.可能来自PIE*med,测量，词源同measure,modal,*yos,比较级后缀，现-er原型，即精确测量的，引申词义中间的。

middle 英文词源

middle

middle: [OE] Middle traces its ancestry back to Indo-European *medhjo-, which also produced Latin medius ‘middle’ (source of English mediate, medium, etc) and Greek mésos ‘middle’ (source of the English prefix meso-). Its prehistoric Germanic descendant was *mithja-, which has given English the adjective mid [OE] and the derived noun midst [14]. From *mithjawas formed in West Germanic the adjective *middila, which has given modern German mittel, Dutch middel, and English middle.
=> mediate, medium

middle (adj.)

Old English middel, from West Germanic *middila (cognates: Old Frisian middel, Old Saxon middil, Middle Low German, Dutch middel, Old High German mittil, German mittel), from Proto-Germanic *medjaz (see mid). Middle name attested from 1815; as "one's outstanding characteristic," colloquial, from 1911, American English.

According to Mr. H.A. Hamilton, in his "Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth," the practice of giving children two Christian names was unknown in England before the period of the Stuarts, was rarely adopted down to the time of the Revolution, and never became common until after the Hanoverian family was seated on the throne. "In looking through so many volumes of county records," he says, "I have, of course, seen many thousands and tens of thousands of proper names, belonging to men of all ranks and degrees,--to noblemen, justices, jurymen, witnesses, sureties, innkeepers, hawkers, paupers, vagrants, criminals, and others,--and in no single instance, down to the end of the reign of Anne, have I noticed any person bearing more than one Christian name ...." [Walsh]

Middle school attested from 1838, originally "middle-class school, school for middle-class children;" the sense in reference to a school for grades between elementary and high school is from 1960. Middle management is 1957. Middle-of-the-road in the figurative sense is attested from 1894; edges of a dirt road can be washed out and thus less safe. Middle finger so called from c. 1000.

middle (n.)

Old English middel, from middle (adj.).

middle 词组搭配

middle 英文释义

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"- Aristotle

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"

middle 同义词解析

center, middle, heart, core, midst

这些名词均含有"中心"之意。

center： 指三维空间的中心点，也可比喻抽象事物的中心。

middle： 一般指时间、空间或过程两端间等距的部分。

heart： 指事物最内部或最重要的部分，表地理位置时可与center换用。

core： 指某事物固定的中心部分或最重要的核心部分。比喻意义指某物的精华。

midst： 书面语用词，指在一个群体的深处或在某活动的进程中。

middle 双语例句

1. Middle East peace talks in Washington showed signs of progress yesterday.

昨天在华盛顿举行的中东和谈有了取得进展的迹象。

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2. Babearth regarded the middle classes as the betrayers of the Revolution.

巴博施把中产阶级看作是革命的叛徒。

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3. She was born in the middle of a rain storm.

她出生在一场暴风雨中。

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4. The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.

宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。

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5. He stares detachedly into the middle distance, towards nothing in particular.

他漠然而漫无目标地注视着不远处。

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middle 实用场景例句

a lake with an island in the middle

中央有一个小岛的湖

牛津词典

He was standing in the middle of the room.

他站在屋子的中间。

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The phone rang in the middle of the night.

半夜里响起了电话铃声。

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This chicken isn't cooked in the middle.

这只鸡还没有熟透。

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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。

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Take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle .

拿出一张纸，在中间画一条线。

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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。

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He grabbed her around the middle.

他拦腰抱住她。

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They were in the middle of dinner when I called.

我打电话的时候，他们正在吃饭呢。

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I'm in the middle of writing a difficult letter.

我正在写一封很难写的信。

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She lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere.

她住在一个偏远的小农场。

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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。

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Pens are kept in the middle drawer.

钢笔在中间那个抽屉里。

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Howard stood in the middle of the room sipping a cup of coffee...

霍华德站在房间中央，小口抿着一杯咖啡。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Hyde accelerated away from the kerb, swerving out into the middle of the street...

海德加速驶离路边，突然向街道中央一个急转弯。

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The middle button of his uniform jacket was strained over his belly.

制服上装中间的纽扣在他的肚子上绷得紧紧的。

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...the middle finger of her left hand.

她左手的中指

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At age fifty-three, he now has a few extra pounds around his middle...

53岁的他腰间长了几磅赘肉。

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The cook's apron covered her middle.

厨用围裙裹着她的腰部。

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I woke up in the middle of the night and could hear a tapping on the window...

我半夜里醒来，听见有敲窗户的声音。

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It was now the middle of November, cold and often foggy...

现在是11月中旬，天气寒冷而且经常有雾。

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She knew he was in his middle fifties, although he looked much younger...

尽管他看上去年轻得多，她知道他在55岁左右。

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I went on competing till I was in my middle forties.

我继续参赛，直到45岁左右。

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His middle son died in a drowning accident five years back.

他排行居中的那个儿子5年前意外溺水身亡。

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He favoured a middle course between free enterprise and state intervention...

他更倾向于在自由经营与国家干预之间走一条中庸之道。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The Mayor of Jerusalem has tried to minimise conflict by maintaining a middle way between the various religions.

耶路撒冷市市长对各宗教采取折中的态度，力图使冲突最小化。

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They agreed to split the bill down the middle...

他们同意均摊费用。

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If the conservatives are not removed, then the party will almost certainly split down the middle.

如果不除掉保守势力，那么这个党几乎肯定会分裂成两派。

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It's a bit hectic. I'm in the middle of cooking for nine people...

我正忙着为9个人做饭呢，有点儿忙不过来。

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He was always in the middle of a business transaction.

他总是忙着做生意。

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