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middle

英 ['m?d(?)l] 美['m?dl]

英英釋義同義詞辨析詞組搭配考試真題實(shí)用場景例句

近義詞core heart hub nucleus center

adj. 中間的，中部的；中級的，中等的
n. 中間，中央；腰部
vt. 把…放在中間，把…對折
vi. 放在中間，對折

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詞態(tài)變化

復(fù)數(shù):?middles;

中文詞源

middle 中間的

來自古英語middel,來自Proto-Germanic*medjaz,來自PIE*medhyos,中間的，詞源同medial,mezzo.可能來自PIE*med,測量，詞源同measure,modal,*yos,比較級后綴，現(xiàn)-er原型，即精確測量的，引申詞義中間的。

英英釋意

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"

英文詞源

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.).

同義詞辨析

center, middle, heart, core, midst

這些名詞均含有"中心"之意。

center：指三維空間的中心點(diǎn)，也可比喻抽象事物的中心。

middle：一般指時(shí)間、空間或過程兩端間等距的部分。

heart：指事物最內(nèi)部或最重要的部分，表地理位置時(shí)可與center換用。

core：指某事物固定的中心部分或最重要的核心部分。比喻意義指某物的精華。

midst：書面語用詞，指在一個(gè)群體的深處或在某活動(dòng)的進(jìn)程中。

考試真題

The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.

Life Reimagined paints a picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.

It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.

At middle age, he wrote, the sowing is behind; now is the time to reap.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 開始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

Jody Hubbard is a diet and nutrition expert who travels around the state to speak in middle and high schools.

What was Helen Lee's major consideration when she changed her job in the middle of her career?

She was in the middle of writing an essay.

The results also show that middle school students read more books than high schoolers.

I never miss a good film set in middle ages.

I heard your baseball team is going to the Middle Atlantic Championship.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on 開始 it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

At middle age, he wrote, "the sowing is behind; now is the time to reap."

In a recent art assignment, a middle school student depicted an overburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+, on a math exam.

In a three-stage life, people leave university at the same time and the same age, they tend to start their careers and family at the same age, they proceed through middle management all roughly the same time, and then move into retirement within a few yea

In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class.

life Reimagined paints a picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.

Rather than offer evidence for categorizing brains as "male" or "female, " research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in the middle.

There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers — even in the middle of the day, when it’s 90 degrees out.

They engage college undergraduates to teach computer science to high school students, who in turn instruct middle school students on the topic.

Yet later on, the more affluent children end up in college and on the way to the middle class, while working-class children tend to struggle.

One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.

Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.

Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.

Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.

Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.

In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children's education.

Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.

But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.

That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

Rising more than 1,000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping- stone to middle-class mobility.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

It is important to increase the size of the middle class.

Despite the ease with which the rich can acquire almost anything they desire, they are just as likely to be unhappy as the middle classes.

He lived outside conventional ideas, he implied, because "I live alone mostly, in the middle of nowhere.

Contrast this middle path with America and Europe, which have each gone ideologically over-board in their own ways.

In it the majority of students will have conformed to the standard model of the time: male, middle class and Western.

Tom, one of the things visitor notices about Harrogate is the large area of open park land right down into the middle of the town.

"middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives," said Loh.

But telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age, that's a powerful message.

Even Africa and the middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.

Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the "single strongest correlate of

If you are looking for something priced in the middle, I would say anything between $30 and $60 would make a decent gift.

In the past few years, Math Counts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math video Challenge.

Lower reading achievement scores and grades in fifth grade contributed to reduced grades in middle school and thereby contributed to a 40% lower high school graduation rate.

One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO— is a middle school program called Math Counts.

Parts of the Balkan region and Turkey follow the diet, as well as middle Eastern countries like Lebanon and Syria.

rising more than 1, 000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.

Today's demographics show that the middle class is disappearing and now the richest one percent of the population has amassed more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.

What has become obvious to me when it comes to the income gap is that there needs to be an opportunity for the people at the bottom to push them back up and push them into the middle class to give them hope in their lives.

with the introduction of Apple's iPhone in the middle of that year, Nokia's market share?shrank rapidly and revenue plunged.

According to the passage, why did snowmen become a phenomenon in the middle ages?

And in modern day consumer society everyone is considered to be middle class.

For example, snowmen were a phenomenon in the middle ages, built with great skill and thought.

He gathered a huge mass of snow and dug out a hole in the middle.

However, the 1995 pop song 'common people' puts forward the view that though a middle-class person may 'want to live like common people' they can never appreciate the reality of a working-class life.

I saw there were two instructors on board and a man lying across the middle.

In recent years, however, young upper middle-class people in London, have begun to adopt some regional accents, in order to hide their class origins.

It was in the middle of Pearl City.

Middle-aged homemakers, retirees, and the unemployed come to such cafes to talk about love, anger, and dreams with a psychologist.

Miss Chen, I was wondering if you could find out how I did on the middle-term exam?

Most of my reading through primary, middle and high school was factual reading.

Most people belong to middle class.

The attraction of the cloisters museum and gardens lies in the fact that its collections date from the middle ages.

The cloisters museum and gardens is a branch of the metropolitan museum of art devoted to the art and architecture of Europe in the middle ages.

Three days later, in the middle of the night, he heard joe's voice.

And also, the Middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms ( ' , not counting Vatican City and Andorra).

jobs are at high risk of being automated, according to a University of Oxford study, with the middle class disproportionately squeezed.

But many middle-class occupations-trucking, financial advice, software engineering - have aroused their interest, or soon will.

Among the annoying challenges facing the middle class is one that will probably go unmentioned in the next presidential campaign: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?.

Among the annoying challenges facing the middle class is one that will probably go unmentioned in the next presidential campaign: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?

And so, the middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms.

As many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be.

Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes.

詞組搭配

down the middle

divided or dividing something equally into two parts

從中間平分的

in the middle of

engaged in or in the process of doing something

正忙于；在做…的中途

the middle of nowhere

(informal)a place that is very remote and isolated

(非正式)茫茫蠻荒之地

steer (或 take) a middle course

adopt a policy which avoids extremes

取中庸之道，不走極端

實(shí)用場景例句

a lake with an island in the middle: 中央有一個(gè)小島的湖

He was standing in the middle of the room.: 他站在屋子的中間。

The phone rang in the middle of the night.: 半夜里響起了電話鈴聲。

This chicken isn't cooked in the middle.: 這只雞還沒有熟透。

His picture was right/bang (= exactly) in the middle of the front page.: 他的照片就登在頭版的正中央。

Take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle .: 拿出一張紙，在中間畫一條線。

I should have finished by the middle of the week.: 我在這周過半的時(shí)候應(yīng)該就能完成。

He grabbed her around the middle.: 他攔腰抱住她。

They were in the middle of dinner when I called.: 我打電話的時(shí)候，他們正在吃飯呢。

I'm in the middle of writing a difficult letter.: 我正在寫一封很難寫的信。

She lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere.: 她住在一個(gè)偏遠(yuǎn)的小農(nóng)場。

The country was split down the middle over the strike (= half supported it, half did not) .: 國內(nèi)支持和反對罷工的人勢均力敵。

Pens are kept in the middle drawer.: 鋼筆在中間那個(gè)抽屜里。

Howard stood in the middle of the room sipping a cup of coffee...: 霍華德站在房間中央，小口抿著一杯咖啡。

Hyde accelerated away from the kerb, swerving out into the middle of the street...: 海德加速駛離路邊，突然向街道中央一個(gè)急轉(zhuǎn)彎。

The middle button of his uniform jacket was strained over his belly.: 制服上裝中間的紐扣在他的肚子上繃得緊緊的。

...the middle finger of her left hand.: 她左手的中指

At age fifty-three, he now has a few extra pounds around his middle...: 53歲的他腰間長了幾磅贅肉。

The cook's apron covered her middle.: 廚用圍裙裹著她的腰部。

I woke up in the middle of the night and could hear a tapping on the window...: 我半夜里醒來，聽見有敲窗戶的聲音。

It was now the middle of November, cold and often foggy...: 現(xiàn)在是11月中旬，天氣寒冷而且經(jīng)常有霧。

She knew he was in his middle fifties, although he looked much younger...: 盡管他看上去年輕得多，她知道他在55歲左右。

I went on competing till I was in my middle forties.: 我繼續(xù)參賽，直到45歲左右。

His middle son died in a drowning accident five years back.: 他排行居中的那個(gè)兒子5年前意外溺水身亡。

He favoured a middle course between free enterprise and state intervention...: 他更傾向于在自由經(jīng)營與國家干預(yù)之間走一條中庸之道。

The Mayor of Jerusalem has tried to minimise conflict by maintaining a middle way between the various religions.: 耶路撒冷市市長對各宗教采取折中的態(tài)度，力圖使沖突最小化。

They agreed to split the bill down the middle...: 他們同意均攤費(fèi)用。

If the conservatives are not removed, then the party will almost certainly split down the middle.: 如果不除掉保守勢力，那么這個(gè)黨幾乎肯定會(huì)分裂成兩派。

It's a bit hectic. I'm in the middle of cooking for nine people...: 我正忙著為9個(gè)人做飯呢，有點(diǎn)兒忙不過來。

He was always in the middle of a business transaction.: 他總是忙著做生意。

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down the middle

in the middle of

the middle of nowhere

steer (或 take) a middle course

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