1.[sing]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。
2.[c][ususing](informal)腰部a person's waist
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。
I'm in the middle of writing a difficult letter.我正在写一封很难写的信。
They were in the middle of dinner when I called.我打电话的时候，他们正在吃饭。
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。
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。
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。
1.[obn]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
One day when women's dresses were on sale at the Far East Department Store, a dignified middle-aged man decided to get his wife a piece.
一天，当远东的一个商场在销售女式的服装时，一个高贵的中年男子决定给他的夫人也买一件。
far offshore in the middle of the night, the ship to the center of the lake, when suddenly a storm of wind, the waves swept over the boat.
在深夜离岸甚远，船到了湖中心的时候，忽然起了暴风，甚至船被波浪掩盖。
The real recognition of the Bishop of Rome as sort of the Pope, in the way we think of it, that actually develops in the Middle Ages.
真正把罗马主教视为类似于教皇这样的角色的，根据我们的了解，是在中世纪出现的。
If an upholstered seat for two or more people is called a settee or a couch, they are no higher them middle-middle.
如果他们将那种能坐两个人或者更多人的椅子为“settee”或者“coach”，那么他们所属的不会高于中层阶级。
That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.
原本就是正得其所嘛：厨房是为仆人准备的，抱负远大的中产阶级可不愿与之有丝毫的沾边。
He took to ringing us up in the middle of the night.
他开始习惯在半夜给我们打电话。
He's very understanding: if I'm hard up by the middle of the week he'll always let me have a few groceries on tick till Friday.
他很会体谅人：要是我们到星期二左右手头紧了起来，他就赊给我一些食品杂货，直到星期五再付款。
Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class.
亚当·史密斯形容英国是一个全民皆商的国家，对能够对中产阶级寄予怎样的希望有着清楚的认识。
To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening.
她的中部微微向上掀起的红色上唇，就连最没有激情的青年男子见了，也要神魂颠倒，痴迷如醉，为之疯狂。
The United States' yawning income gap between the middle class and the top percentile isn't unique. It's part of a global phenomenon.
美国中产阶级和顶尖富人之间巨大的收入差距不是独有的。它是一个全球现象的一部分。
In the middle of your regular walk, walk as fast as you can for a minute or so.
在你经常的步行当中，试着以最快的速度走个一、两分钟。
Joshua: True. It would be distracting to worry about your skirt flying up in the middle of a fight.
真的。这会让人因担心裙子在打斗之中飞起来而分神。
Declaring that he would actively pursue the goal of peace in the Middle East, Obama said the world should not give in to pessimism.
他宣布，他在中东将会积极争取实现和平的目标。奥巴马说，对世界不应该持有悲观的态度。
President Obama's supporters say he is trying to take a more "even-handed" approach to the Middle East conflict than his predecessors.
奥巴马总统的支持者说，和他的前任相比，奥巴马试图在解决中东冲突上采取不偏不倚的方法。
When he took off the blindfold, he was in the middle of thick woods. By himself. All night long.
当他将蒙眼布拿开时，已经孤身于丛林之中，在那里要待上一夜。
So the next time you wake up in the middle of the night, think of your pre-industrial ancestors and relax.
所以下次当你在半夜醒来，想想你工业时期前的祖先们并且放松下来。
However, the research of vocabulary teaching and learning in middle schools is often neglected due to its difficulty.
然而，中学阶段的词汇教学研究，由于其难度大，往往受到冷落。
For now, at least, all Middle East roads seem to lead through China.
至少到目前为止，似乎所有中东路线都通向中国。
But how surprised she was to see in the middle of the flower, a tiny little man, as white and transparent as if he had been made of crystal!
小姑娘感到多么惊奇啊！在那朵花的坐着小小的男子！――他是那么白皙和透明，好像是水晶做成的。
He said he saw a middle-aged woman, who was a passer-by, telling the attacker: 'He's just a village kid!
他说他看见一名过路的中年妇女对打人男子说：他就是个农村小孩！
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