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. 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

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

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

1.中部；中央；中间
The middle of something is the part of it that is furthest from its edges, ends, or outside surface.

e.g. Howard stood in themiddle 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。
e.g. Hyde accelerated away from the kerb, swerving out into themiddle of the street...
海德加速驶离路边，突然向街道中央一个急转弯。

2.当中的;正中的
Themiddle object in a row of objects is the one that has an equal number of objects on each side.

e.g. Themiddle 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。
e.g. ...themiddle finger of her left hand.
她左手的中指

3.腹部;腰部
Yourmiddle is the part of your body around your stomach.

e.g. At age fifty-three, he now has a few extra pounds around hismiddle...
53岁的他腰间长了几磅赘肉。
e.g. The cook's apron covered hermiddle.
厨用围裙裹着她的腰部。

4.(某件事或某段时间的)中期
The middle of an event or period of time is the part that comes after the first part and before the last part.

e.g. I woke up in themiddle 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。
e.g. It was now themiddle of November, cold and often foggy...
现在是11月中旬，天气寒冷而且经常有雾。

5.（年龄）中间的
If someone is in theirmiddle thirties, for example, they are aged somewhere approximately between thirty-four and thirty-six.

e.g. She knew he was in hismiddle 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。
e.g. I went on competing till I was in mymiddle forties.
我继续参赛，直到45岁左右。

6.(兄弟姐妹中)年龄居中的，排行居中的
Themiddle child in a family has equal numbers of younger and older brothers and sisters.

e.g. Hismiddle 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。

7.折中的;中庸之道的;不走极端的
Themiddle course or way is a moderate course of action that lies between two opposite and extreme courses.

e.g. He favoured amiddle 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。
e.g. The Mayor of Jerusalem has tried to minimise conflict by maintaining amiddle 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。

8.平均（分配）;把…一分为二
If you divide or split somethingdown the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.

e.g. They agreed to split the bill down themiddle...
他们同意均摊费用。
e.g. If the conservatives are not removed, then the party will almost certainly split down themiddle.
如果不除掉保守势力，那么这个党几乎肯定会分裂成两派。

9.正忙于
If you arein the middle of doing something, you are busy doing it.

e.g. It's a bit hectic. I'm in themiddle of cooking for nine people...
我正忙着为9个人做饭呢，有点儿忙不过来。
e.g. He was always in themiddle of a business transaction.
他总是忙着做生意。

1.

1. 中部：上部者和下部者相同 中部(middle)者比上下部者多上部(top)者比下部(bottom)者多 上部者比下部者少上部者和下部者相同 中部(middle)者比上下部者多3 下 有关白肌(white muscle)和红肌(red muscle)的比较,何者 正确?

There are 300 students or so in this middle school.

这所中学大约有300个学生。

He was not much above the middle height.

他不过中等身材。

He made a bid for middle class support.

他努力试图得到中产阶级的支持。

The man has reached middle age.

这人已到了中年。

What is your father's middle name?

你爸爸中间的名字什么?

Which book do you want? I'll have the middle one.

你要哪本书?我要中间的那一本。

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。

The sheets have worn thin in the middle.

床单的中间部分磨薄了。

He planted roses in the middle of the garden.

他在花园中间种上玫瑰。

Uruguay and Haiti hung uncertainly in the middle.

乌拉圭和海地则在中间摇摆。

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。

He grabbed her around the middle.

他拦腰抱住她。

They were in the middle of dinner when I called.

我打电话的时候，他们正在吃饭呢。

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

我正在写一封很难写的信。

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

她住在一个偏远的小农场。

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。

Pens are kept in the middle drawer.

钢笔在中间那个抽屉里。

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。

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。

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。

...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岁的他腰间长了几磅赘肉。

The cook's apron covered her middle.

厨用围裙裹着她的腰部。

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

我半夜里醒来，听见有敲窗户的声音。

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。

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。

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

我继续参赛，直到45岁左右。

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。

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。

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。

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

他们同意均摊费用。

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。

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。

He was always in the middle of a business transaction.

他总是忙着做生意。

1. It's best to slice into a rich cake from the middle.
   最好把甜美的蛋糕从中间分开。
2. The fence along the middle of the road is intended to guard vehicles from crashing into each other.
   道路中央的防护栏是为防止汽车相撞而设的。
3. Fire most of your shots at the middle of the ship.
   集中火力,朝船的中部射击。
4. The middle of an election is no time to face about.
   选举中途不能改变主张。
5. He is thirty five inches round the middle.
   他腰围35英寸。

用作定语～+ n.

1. Every time I went back to my hometown I would pay my respects to the middle school teachers.
   每次回到故里,我都去拜访我的中学老师。
2. He got a job as a teacher in one of the senior middle schools.
   他找到了一份工作,在一所高中当老师。
3. I cut my middle finger.
   我割伤了中指。
4. This pattern shows lines of different colours radiating from a middle point.
   这图案表现了从中心点放射出的各种不同的色彩。
5. He has three children, the middle child is a boy.
   他有三个孩子,老二是个男孩。

in the middle

正忙于 be busy
in the middle

The wall is projects in the middle.

墙壁中部凸出。

One end is blue, one end is red, and the colours merge in the middle.

一端为蓝色,一端为红色,这两种颜色在中间混成一色。

in the middle of sth

He positioned the lamp in the middle of the table.

他把灯放在桌子中央。

Everyone's eyes fastened on the little girl in the middle of the stage.

大家的目光集中在舞台中央的那位小姑娘身上。

Mother was embarrassed when the children started laughing in the middle of the service.

礼拜做到一半,孩子们开始笑了起来,母亲为此感到不好意思。

I cut him short in the middle of his explanation.

他解释了一半我就把他打断了。

I was cut off in the middle of the telephone call.

我话讲了一半,电话中断了。

We shall catch them in the middle of their supper.

我们会碰上他们吃晚饭。

He broke off in the middle of a sentence.

他在一个句子的中间停了下来。

He stopped short in the middle of his story.

他故事讲到一半突然停了下来。

Who's that pounding at the door in the middle of the night?

午夜时分,不知谁在敲门?

The businessman was struck down with a heart attack in the middle of the meeting.

这位企业家在开会时因患心脏病而倒下。

How did he sneak off in the middle of the meeting without being noticed?

他是怎么在会议中途偷偷溜走而未被人发现的?

in the middle of v-ing

He is in the middle of washing up.

他正忙着洗碗碟。

介词+～

• middle%20of%20his%20class">above the middle of his class属全班中上水平
• middle">at the middle在…中间
• middle%20of">from the middle of从…中央
• middle">in the middle在…中间

～+介词

• middle%20of%20next%20month">middle of next month下月中旬
• middle%20of%20the%2019th%20century">middle of the 19th century十九世纪中叶

～+名词

• middle%20age">middle age中年
• middle%20class">middle class中产阶级
• middle%20house">middle house中间那幢房子
• middle%20man">middle man中间人,经纪人
• middle%20school">middle school中学
• the M- Ages中世纪
• the M- America中美洲
• the M- East中东
• the M- English中古英语
• the M- West(美国)中西部

• He was at that middle time of life which is happily tempered with the warmth of youth.

  出自：Goldsmith

• In the same way you will get the middle line of the mouth.

  出自：W. M. Craig

• The middle portion of the glacier.

  出自：J. Tyndall

• My middle sister, Emily.

  出自：Punch

Tickets-(买票)

A：Hi, do you have any tickets for the show tonight?
你好，今晚的演出还有票卖吗？

middle

B：Sorry, it’s all sold out.
对不起，卖完了。

A：Well, do you have any for tomorrow?
那么，明天的呢？

B：We have tickets for the matinee. It starts at 3p.m.
我们有日场的票卖，下午3点钟开始。

middle的近义词

A：Ok. I’ll take it.
好的，我买（日场）。

B：Where would you like to sit?
您想坐在什么地方？

A：Do you have anything in themiddle section? I want a good view, but sitting too close hurts my eyes.
有中间的座位吗？我想视觉效果好一点，但坐得太近又伤眼睛。

B：Certainly.
有的。

教育

A：So, what’s your educational background?
那么，你的教育背景是什么？

B：I graduate from high school with a 4.0, graduated from university with a degree in English, and am currently in themiddle of obtaining a master’s degree in Linguistics.
我以4.0 的成绩从高中毕业， 大学获得了英语学士学位，近来正在读语言学硕士学位。

middle的翻译

A：What university did you go to ?
你在那所大学？

B：I went to UCB, the university of California, Berkeley.
UCB,加州伯克利大学。

A：Are you from California originally?
你是加州本地人么？

B：No, I’m from Colorado. I received a full scholarship to UCB, so I went.
不，我来自科罗拉州，我活得了UCB 全额奖学金，所以我去那里了。

middle的解释

A：That’s great. How did you like your classes there?
那太好了，你觉得那些课上得怎么样？

B：I like my professors a lot. They seemed to have a lot of passion for teaching. They weren’t the stuffy professors that I thought they’d be.。
我很喜欢我的教授。 他们似乎有很多教学热情。他们不是我想象的那种乏味的教授

A：How about the other students? Did you get along well with them?
其他同学怎么样？和他们相处的好吗？

B：The students were from all over the country. I found that most of my friends were people who were from the mid-west?
这里的学生来自全国各地，我发现我的大多数朋友来自中西部。

A：That’s interesting. Why do you think that is?
真有意思，为什么你这样认为？

B：I’m not sure. I lived in Iowa duringmiddle school, so I guess we had that in common. Mid-westerners and people from the west coast have a different view of the world.
我搞不清，我初中住在衣阿华州，所以我猜我们有共同之处。中西部和来自西海岸的人有不同的世界观。

middle

A：What do you mean?
你指什么？

B：It’s hard to explain. I guess people from the west coast come off as a bit snobby sometimes, especially if you aren’t come from the west coast。
很难解释清，我猜西海岸的人有点势利，尤其是对纳妾不是来自西海岸的人。

A：I see. Well, thanks for coming in for the interview. My secretary will get back to you within a week.
我懂了，奥，谢谢你接受这次面试，我的秘书会在一周内给你回电话的。

n.(名词)

1. 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。
2. middle也可表示身体的“中部,腰部”,跟waist意思相近。
3. in the middle of v -ing意思是“正忙于做某事”。

adj.(形容词)

1. middle用作形容词时,意思是“中部的,中间的,当中的”。
2. 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。
3. middle可表示孩子的排行。

n.(名词)

middle, centre, core, midst

这组词都有“中间”“中部”的意思。其区别在于:

1.middle指距离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; midst指空间、时间、事物、人群等的中间; core指果实的果心; centre指空间的方、圆等位于中心的位置。例如:

There is a double writing table in the middle of the room.房子中间放着一张双人写字台。

He was elected from the midst of the prisoners.他是从犯人中选出的。

The core of the apple is hard.苹果核是硬的。

This building is at the centre of the city.这座大楼坐落在市中心。

2.core引申为“精髓”“核心”或“重要部分”; centre则引申为重要活动或事物的中心。例如:

We didn't get to the core of the subject.我们没触及问题的核心。

The core of our appeal is freedom of speech.我们呼吁的中心是要言论自由。

She loves to be the centre of interest.她喜欢成为引人注意的中心人物。

下面两句话的意思不同:

He arrived at Yulin at the middle of May.

他是五月中到玉林的。

He arrived at Yulin in the middle of May.

他是五月中旬到玉林的。

adj.(形容词)

middle school, senior middle school, junior middle school

三者的意思并不相同。其区别在于：middle school的意思是“中学(包括初中和高中)”,是一种比较笼统的用法; junior middle school的意思是“初中”; senior middle schools的意思是“高中”。例如:

When he studied in middle school, he was dismissed for stealing.他在中学读书时,因偷窃而被开除。

About 80 percent of the graduates advanced to senior middle schools.约有80%的毕业生升入了高中。

My brother dropped out at the end of the second year of his junior middle school.我哥哥念完初中二年级就休学了。

下面两个句子的意思不同:

He is a man of middle height.

他是一位个子适中的人。

He is a man of the middle height.

他是一位中等身材的人。

下面两个短语的意思不同:

middle age

中年时期

the middle Ages

中世纪时期(1100-1500年)

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。

n.(名词)

彼得是中午回来的。

误 Peter came back in the centre of the day.

正 Peter came back in the middle of the day.

析 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。

误 The city is the commercial middle of the whole country.

正 The city is the commercial centre of the whole country.

析 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。

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

正 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。

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

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

析 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)

淄博是山东省的一个中等城市。

误 Zibo is a middle city in Shandong Province.

正 Zibo is a medium-sized city in Shandong Province.

析 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。

误 The history of the town dates back to the middle Age.

正 The history of the town dates back to the middle Ages.

析 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)。

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的middel，意为中间。