middlenoun
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。
腰部
a person's waist
He grabbed her around the middle.
他拦腰抱住她。
to be busy doing sth
我打电话的时候，他们正在吃饭呢。
They were in the middle of dinner when I called.
I'm in the middle of writing a difficult letter.
我正在写一封很难写的信。
a place that is a long way from other buildings, towns, etc.
她住在一个偏远的小农场。
She lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere.
to divide sth into two equal parts
国内支持和反对罢工的人势均力敌。
The country was split down the middle over the strike (= half supported it, half did not) .
adj.
only before noun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
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N-COUNT 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.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。
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ADJ 当中的;正中的
The middle object in a row of objects is the one that has an equal number of objects on each side.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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N-COUNT 腹部;腰部
Your middle is the part of your body around your stomach.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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N-SING (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.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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ADJ （年龄）中间的
If someone is in their middle thirties, for example, they are aged somewhere approximately between thirty-four and thirty-six.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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ADJ (兄弟姐妹中)年龄居中的，排行居中的
The middle child in a family has equal numbers of younger and older brothers and sisters.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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ADJ 折中的;中庸之道的;不走极端的
The middle course or way is a moderate course of action that lies between two opposite and extreme courses.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。
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PHRASE 平均（分配）;把…一分为二
If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.They agreed to split the bill down the middle...
他们同意均摊费用。
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PHRASE 正忙于
If you are in the middle of doing something, you are busy doing it.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。
noun
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- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
- young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable
- Synonym: midriff midsection
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- an intermediate part or section
- A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotl
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- 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
- Synonym: center centre heart eye
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- time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
- the middle of the war
- rain during the middle of April
verb
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- put in the middle
adj
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- between an earlier and a later period of time
- in the middle years
- in his middle thirties
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- 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
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- 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
- Synonym: in-between mediate
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Where three roads diverge take the middle branch .
到三岔路口时走中间的道。
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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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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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She 's the middle child of three .
三个孩子，她是老二。
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The village has a history going back to the Middle Ages .
这个村子的历史可追溯至中世纪。
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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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His eyes were fixed on a small house in the middle distance .
他凝视着不远处的一座小房子。
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The country was split down the middle over the strike .
国内支持和反对罢工的人势均力敌。
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A car alarm went off in the middle of the night .
半夜里一辆汽车的警报器突然响了起来。
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Aim for the middle of the target .
瞄准靶心。
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On one occasion , she called me in the middle of the night .
有一次她深更半夜打电话给我。
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He parts his hair in the middle .
他梳着中分头。
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Middle children tend to get lost in the shuffle .
排行居中的子女往往得不到充分的关注。
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Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground .
谈判未能达成任何妥协。
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The skill is in steering a middle course between the two extremes .
本领就在于避开这两个极端，走中间路线。
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The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class .
这出戏讽刺了新中产阶级的装模作样。
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The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the earth .
赤道是一条假想的环绕地球腰部的线。
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' Patience ' is my middle name !
我的最大特点就是有耐心！
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The curtains don 't meet in the middle .
这窗帘中间合不拢。
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It was a brave decision to change tack in the middle of the project .
在项目进行过程当中改变方针是个大胆的决定。
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To tell the truth , I fell asleep in the middle of her talk .
说实话，我在她讲话过程中睡着了。
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In the Middle Ages England waged war on France .
在中世纪，英格兰向法国发动了战争。
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A car stood double-parked almost in the middle of the road .
一辆车并排停在路边另一辆车旁，几乎占据了路的中央。
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This chicken isn 't cooked in the middle .
这只鸡还没有熟透。
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He grabbed her around the middle .
他拦腰抱住她。
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The middle decades of the 19th century marked a watershed in Russia 's history .
19世纪中叶标志着俄国历史的转折点。
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The opening paragraph invokes a vision of England in the early Middle Ages .
头一段的引言描绘出中世纪前期的英格兰景象。
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The ballet company now occupies the middle ground between classical ballet and modern dance .
这个芭蕾舞团采取的是介于古典芭蕾舞和现代舞之间的风格。
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Their apartment is slap bang in the middle of town .
他们住的公寓恰巧在全城的中心。
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Stay indoors in the middle of the day , when the sun is strongest .
中午阳光最强的时候待在室内。
指空间、地域或物体的中心点，也可指学术、商业等活动的中心。
There is a huge oak table in the centre of the meeting room.
会议室中央有一张巨大的橡木桌子。
Beijing is the political and cultural centre of China.
北京是中国的政治和文化中心。
指某物体的中心部分或某事物最重要的部分。
Remove the cores, and thinly slice the apples.
去除果核，把苹果切成薄片。
The core of their appeal is freedom of speech.
他们吁求的核心是言论自由。
Debt is at the core of the problem.
债务是问题的关键。
指事物最重要的部分；也可指方位上的中心，作此义解时可与 centre 换用。
We must get to the heart of the issue.
我们必须抓住问题的核心。
They went to a big hotel in the heart/centre of the city.
他们去了市中心的一家大酒店。
指空间、时间或事件的中间部分。
There is a table in the middle of the parlor.
客厅中央有一张桌子。
He came back home in the middle of the night.
他半夜才回家。
指位于某地的中部或者处于一群人、一堆物品中间，也可指在某事的进行过程中。
We found him in the midst of a group of his usual friends.
我们在他的一群老朋友中找到了他。
In the midst of my work I snatched an hour's rest.
我在工作中趁隙休息了一个钟头。
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