Definition of middle in English:

middle

noun ˈmɪd(ə)lˈmɪdl

1usually in singular The point or position at an equal distance from the sides, edges, or ends of something.
中部，中间，中央，当中
she stood alone in the middle of the street
她独自一人站在街中央。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her blue slacks were creased neatly down the sides in the exact middle of the gold stripe that told everyone she was from Central.
- Twisting lace vines snaked up the middle on both sides of the pearl buttons.
- Eva sat a chair away from either, in the middle on the side of the table.
- From there, start digging from the middle out or the edge in.
- About six years ago, I changed the part in my hair from the middle to the side.
- It was a little shorter than knee length on the sides, and in the front, it got longer in a diagonal line, and the two sides overlapped in the middle.
- The two large pipe corrals were situated side by side in the middle.
- Later, on a much larger timescale, they gradually start to explore the positions toward the middle of the DNA segment.
- In the middle of the two sides of this are large domes built on pillars of the same height as those of the outer arcade and an upper gallery runs all round it.
- A low table with cushions on either side occupied the middle of the room.
- He loses interest in the drawers and continues to walk in a crouch position toward the middle of the desk and the chair.
- Well here I have a single bed, so, my favourite side is the middle.
- This effectively levitated the stone to a floating position in the middle.
- If two people are erecting the structure, each takes a side of the tipi cover and pulls it around the poles until the sides meet in the middle on the far side.
- His furnace was placed at the middle of a side wall, where waste heat could be sucked up a chimney to prevent the workshop from becoming too hot in summer.
- Drain the blister with a sterile needle by piercing the edge, not the middle.
- Rogers learns quickly and can play the strong side and the middle.
- Use a roller to make sure it adheres well - roll from the middle out to the edges.
- You don't want to pick it up on the left or the right side but in the middle.
- If the action is in the middle, both sides are cropped.
1. 1.1 The point at or around the centre of a period of time, activity, etc.
  （过程、活动、一段时间）中间，当中
  we were married in the middle of December
  我们是在12月中旬结婚的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But it added that if the issues fail to be resolved through negotiations, it would launch collective activities from the middle of next month.
  Although it is the middle of the afternoon, the interior of the hut is dark.
  Our province desperately needs a party to once again position themselves in the middle where most of the voting block is.
  Secondly, when you do give her your gifts during the middle of the period, she will be so relieved that she won't realize that you've messed up her lecture.
  The position of deputy mayor in charge of administering city funds has been vacant for nine months, but the mayor hopes to fill the position by the middle of this month.
  The true giants did not arrive until the middle of the Cretaceous period.
  I was answering the phone with a ‘good afternoon’ by half ten in the morning and it felt like the middle of the night by the time we started this evening's show at seven.
  Yesterday, however, sleet began to fall about the middle of the afternoon and continued through the night.
  In the middle of the reproductive period most bugs carry eggs.
  Studies of the environment indicate that the agricultural landscape of the frontier area was maintained as it had been in the Roman period until the middle of the sixth century.
  In the middle of the first period, Lauren sat down next to me.
  Cotton harvest is generally evenly distributed in activity from the middle of August through the end of November.
  Aren't those jerks supposed to chirp at dawn, not the middle of the night?
  In the middle of the period are the splendid voluntaries, written by Henry Heron, John Keeble and William Russell.
  After the middle of the Choson Period, the handles became longer and thicker and straighter and the round part became very round.
  After that period to the middle of the sixteenth century they are, with the exception of those of the school of Ferrara, mostly large.
  In the middle of the period, I was sitting, doing nothing when the teacher said something that caught my ear.
  Their maximum was found after the middle of the light period.
  Irma is hoping the Commission will agree to an extension of the copyright period by the middle of next year.
  In the middle of the third period, Aaron rushed into the classroom, startling everyone in the class.
  Synonyms
  centre, mean, median, mid point, halfway point, dead centre, focal point, focus, hub, nucleus, midst
  eye, heart, core, kernel, bosom, interior, depths, thick, bullseye
2. 1.2informal A person's waist and stomach.
  〈非正式〉腰部；身体中部
  he had a towel round his middle
  他在腰间裹了一条浴巾。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the other two, the one with the round middle and the one with sleek black hair, she had known all her life.
  She was shorter than I was by a good ten inches, round about the middle, but with the firm energy that my father used to possess.
  She yelled, grabbing me around the waist and bucking me in the middle.
  He was tall and broad-chested, if a bit round at the middle, and dressed much better than these other two.
  He was a little big round the middle, and his beard had little grey speckles in it.
  A middle-aged man with a round middle came running out of the supposed home office.
  One was slightly large round the middle, the other wearing a very short skirt and denim jacket.
  Their Italian shoes are unscuffed and their ties are always straight and they never go bald or get paunchy around the middle.
  Synonyms
  midriff, waist, waistline, belly, gut, stomach, paunch, pot belly, beer belly
  informal tummy, tum, pot, bread basket
2Grammar
The form or voice of a verb expressing reflexive or reciprocal action.
〔语法〕中动态，中间反身态
Example sentencesExamples
- The middle, or Third Voice, can help the congregation be unafraid of conflict and to welcome it as an opportunity.
- Other standard grammars use different lexemes but communicate the same reflexive idea for the middle.
3Logic
short for middle term

adjective ˈmɪd(ə)lˈmɪdl

1attributive At an equal distance from the extremities of something; central.
中部的，中间的，中央的，当中的
the early and middle part of life
生命的早期和中期。
middle and eastern Europe
中欧和东欧。
Example sentencesExamples
- Identify the price action moving toward the median or middle line.
- Put simply, over the past quarter of a century he has become arguably the most successful coach in the history of middle and long distance running.
- Throughout development, the peripheral cells were larger than cells of the middle or central zones in both lines.
- So, too, are ventures into the middle and long distance freestyles.
- In the new works, she reduces her choice of colors to three, merging the middle bands into a large central field.
- But they forget completely about eastern, middle, and southeastern Europe.
- When comparing flushes, the highest card is compared first, then if these are equal the middle card, and finally if necessary the lowest.
- The camera is on the central robot arm opposite the middle port.
- It is common in the understory of open mixed woodlands at middle elevations in the eastern and southeastern Iberian Peninsula.
- The ‘power center’ retail area and anchor stores would go up in the middle and eastern part of the site.
- For many years, middle and long distance running has been the strong point of our sport with field events and sprinting being the poor relations.
- The goal of this study was to examine how children in the early and middle childhood periods perceive social withdrawal.
- In both a lit area in the middle foreground helps to define our distance from the main object.
- Keep to the middle path between extremes - it's easy going overboard and much harder clambering back.
- Using electric motors, the middle seat slides rearward into a central location.
- In the third scenario, all heavy vehicles are restricted from the use of the left and middle lanes.
- Poole knows England's, as well as Britain's, standing in the world of middle and long distance running isn't as high as it once was.
- Apparently he will be be the last witness of the day, which means he may not testify until middle or late afternoon Eastern Time.
- The middle section shows his spine and central body organs.
- We're dealing here with the rule and not the exception, the middle, not the extremities.
Synonyms
central, mid, mean, medium, medial, median, midway, halfway, equidistant, mesial
1. 1.1 (of a member of a group or sequence) placed so as to have the same number of members on each side.
  （群、系列、序列中）居中的，中间的
  the woman was in her middle forties
  那妇女四十五六岁。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Suzanne and her brother Matt were the middle children in the family and neither seemed to care much about doing things proper.
  The instructor of visual arts was in his middle forties, equipped with a sinewy body and a receding hairline.
  My mother used to take me and my middle brother to bluebell woods, somewhere in Kent, just for a treat.
  Some in the union urged choosing a nurse who reflected average real nurses on the job - middle forties and overworked.
  However, the WHO has not ruled out the possibility, because the middle brother cared for the elder sibling before he died.
  This sculpture belongs to the period in his middle 30s when his work was mainly Cubist.
  Charles and Matthew, the two middle brothers who rarely left the manor, were taken back to their quarters by servants.
  If it was that important to his middle brother, it was important to him, too.
  Before his marriage, my middle brother converted to Judaism.
  Each member of the team is credited with the time of the fifth team member to cross the finish line; this is the middle member of a nine-person team.
  He was always insulting either Tom or the middle brother, Timothy.
  Matt sat with one of his brothers in the middle seat, and the back seat was filled with Matt's two younger brothers.
  The language in the court cases began to change during the middle two decades of the period.
  The trio is referred to as big brother, middle brother and small brother.
  Milos Valnik turned out to be a bulky man in his middle forties, probably because he was dressed for winter.
  So Casey and Chris ran their tag-team critique past Eric, the middle brother, as they had in previous offseasons.
  So instead of being a film about a mouse trying to fit in with humans, we get a far more banal film about a middle brother's loneliness.
  Denami, the middle brother, comes upon this bear and, thinking it killed the first brother, vows revenge.
  In their middle years, the members of the Baby Boom generation will face the inevitability of their mortality.
  Mikie was the middle brother of the five, and had been doted on by all because of his charm and good nature.
2. 1.2 Intermediate in rank, quality, or ability.
  （职位，品质，能力）中级的，中等的
  there is a dearth of talent at middle level
  缺乏中级人才。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was well educated and went to Rome at the appropriate time for a member of his middle upper-class.
  But the real discrimination was taking place in the middle ranks and that was where we had the hardest time.
  But the novel is also haunted by a mysterious evacuation of the middle ranks.
  Sean is a business major and is already working in the middle ranks of a high paying company.
  While the union executives have advanced this project intensively, there is substantial resistance to it by a middle level of functionaries.
  Struggling students in the intermediate and middle grades need plenty of practice in reading whole texts that are not too difficult to handle.
  Often members of the middle and upper-middle class, these customers are willing to spend their dollars on the luxuries they love.
  Among big customers it happens down among the middle tiers on both sides.
  As a middle level power we have extensive experience as an honest broker, developing constructive approaches to global and regional problems.
  Every crop failure flings masses of the middle peasants into the ranks of the proletariat.
  When it comes to deprivation, Bexley sits fairly comfortably in the middle ranks of the country but the Government-compiled figures mask a harsh reality.
  The rest are stuck at the lower and middle levels of the managerial hierarchy.
  Even with a limited skill set, he should have enough left in the tank to handle the flotsam that occupies the middle ranks of the division.
  With remedial support and input from us he progressed to be in the middle level in most subjects.
  Most southerners are not descendants of southern aristocracy but hail from the middle ranks, like many of the people in this book.
  One of the big challenges is to recruit from the middle ranks upwards.
  At times, her attacks were directed straightforwardly against the vulgarity of the middle ranks.
  The depicted individuals were of high and middle social rank but were not always wealthy.
  The bulk of popular features are available at the middle subscription level.
  Improvements in lifestyle behaviours seem to have been achieved primarily by those with middle incomes and higher levels of education.
  Synonyms
  intermediate, intermedial, intermediary, inner, inside
3. 1.3 (of a language) of the period between the old and modern forms.
  （语言）中古的，介于现代与古代之间的
  Middle High German
  中古高地德语。
2Grammar
attributive Denoting a voice of verbs in some languages, such as Greek, which expresses reciprocal or reflexive action.
〔语法〕中动态的，中间反身态的
Example sentencesExamples
- Is this in any way related to an inherent middle voice?
- We have already observed that during the time of Hellenistic Greek, the middle voice form was losing ground to the passive.
- The word appears in both the active and the middle voice in Luke, the Pauline corpus, Hebrews, James and 1 Peter.
- I will argue that the validity of the notion of deponency is questionable in light of a closer look at the function and meaning of the middle voice in Greek.
- The middle voice spoke not only for but also to the Greek sense of self.
1. 2.1 Denoting a transitive verb in English which does not have an equivalent passive, e.g. had in he had an idea.
  （英语及物动词）无被动态的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Further, with all forms except the aorist and future, we are not able to tell whether a verb is middle or passive.

verb ˈmɪd(ə)l

[with object]

(in cricket, tennis, etc.) strike (the ball) with the middle of the bat, racket, or club.
（板球、网球等中）用球棒（或拍）中部击（球）
every shot he took on, he middled
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Every shot he took on, he middled,’ said an admiring Collingwood.
- I was middling the ball well and continued from where I had left off after my good score against Zimbabwe in the previous game.
- However, Sarwan can't be blamed too much for his dismissal, as Younis Khan held a stinging effort at short extra cover as Sarwan middled a drive.
- Patel, who was middling the ball quite well during his 203 minute vigil at the crease, edged an outside-the-off-stump delivery from Akbar to see Kamran Akmal take a superb diving catch behind the stumps.
- The fact is, I focus on middling the ball for the ‘feel.’
- We got him out in the 20s with a mistimed shot, but if he had middled the ball, it would have come down in Rawtenstall!

Phrases

down the middle

Divided or dividing something equally into two parts.
从中间平分的
draw a line down the middle of a sheet of paper
figurative the country's split down the middle on this thing
Example sentencesExamples
- With the nation divided down the middle, it was proof that Democrats should take nothing for granted.
- He jumps to his feet and draws an imaginary line down the middle of the table.
- The road is narrow, admittedly, but there is a white line down the middle.
- The two-ref system sees the soccer pitch divided down the middle, from goal to goal, by an imaginary line.
- An idea is to split the trailer down the middle and divide into compartments.
- There must be a magic line down the middle of the street that divides the good air from the bad air.
- These two divide their page down the middle, one column each, and blog independently of each other.
- On the second mirror a thin line is placed running down the middle from top to bottom.
- One has to have a central line down the middle of the book to hold the design together.
- Within a week, he said, there'll be a chalk line down the middle of the living room, with one of you on either side.

in the middle of

1In the process of doing (something)
正忙于；在做…的中途
the company is in the middle of negotiations
那妇女四十五六岁。
Example sentencesExamples
- We caught up with Wiley in the middle of hectic preparations for his second video shoot.
- A nurse would leave in the middle of a procedure, promising to return, but fail to do so.
- We are right in the middle of our annual business planning process which I have the lead for.
1. 1.1Involved in (something, typically something unpleasant)
  介入（尤指令人不快或危险的事）
  he was caught in the middle of the emotional triangle
  他陷于三角情感中。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In fact, if experts are to be believed, we are in the middle of a shyness epidemic.
  We would still be in the middle of a terrible employment tribunal and discipline.

steer (or take) a middle course

Adopt a policy which avoids extremes.
取中庸之道，不走极端
Example sentencesExamples
- But both sides, while unctuously claiming that of course they themselves take a middle course and believe in both genes and culture, seemingly remain convinced that no one on the other side does.
- The United States has generally been served best by toughminded leaders who steered a middle course.
- The result is a comprehensive and, in places, detailed account of the life of this king that generally steers a middle course through the many controversies of his reign.
- But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
- But Guy reveals how Mary shrewdly steered a middle course between her enemies and supporters.

Origin

Old English middel, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch middel and German Mittel, also to mid¹.

Rhymes

fiddle, griddle, kiddle, Liddell, piddle, riddle, twiddle

Definition of middle in US English:

middle

nounˈmidlˈmɪdl

1usually in singular The point or position at an equal distance from the sides, edges, or ends of something.
中部，中间，中央，当中
she stood alone in the middle of the street
她独自一人站在街中央。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her blue slacks were creased neatly down the sides in the exact middle of the gold stripe that told everyone she was from Central.
- Later, on a much larger timescale, they gradually start to explore the positions toward the middle of the DNA segment.
- This effectively levitated the stone to a floating position in the middle.
- About six years ago, I changed the part in my hair from the middle to the side.
- His furnace was placed at the middle of a side wall, where waste heat could be sucked up a chimney to prevent the workshop from becoming too hot in summer.
- Drain the blister with a sterile needle by piercing the edge, not the middle.
- From there, start digging from the middle out or the edge in.
- If two people are erecting the structure, each takes a side of the tipi cover and pulls it around the poles until the sides meet in the middle on the far side.
- A low table with cushions on either side occupied the middle of the room.
- Eva sat a chair away from either, in the middle on the side of the table.
- He loses interest in the drawers and continues to walk in a crouch position toward the middle of the desk and the chair.
- In the middle of the two sides of this are large domes built on pillars of the same height as those of the outer arcade and an upper gallery runs all round it.
- Twisting lace vines snaked up the middle on both sides of the pearl buttons.
- You don't want to pick it up on the left or the right side but in the middle.
- Rogers learns quickly and can play the strong side and the middle.
- Use a roller to make sure it adheres well - roll from the middle out to the edges.
- Well here I have a single bed, so, my favourite side is the middle.
- It was a little shorter than knee length on the sides, and in the front, it got longer in a diagonal line, and the two sides overlapped in the middle.
- If the action is in the middle, both sides are cropped.
- The two large pipe corrals were situated side by side in the middle.
1. 1.1 The point at or around the center of a process or activity, period of time, etc.
  （过程、活动、一段时间）中间，当中
  we were married in the middle of December
  我们是在12月中旬结婚的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cotton harvest is generally evenly distributed in activity from the middle of August through the end of November.
  The position of deputy mayor in charge of administering city funds has been vacant for nine months, but the mayor hopes to fill the position by the middle of this month.
  Our province desperately needs a party to once again position themselves in the middle where most of the voting block is.
  Their maximum was found after the middle of the light period.
  But it added that if the issues fail to be resolved through negotiations, it would launch collective activities from the middle of next month.
  Although it is the middle of the afternoon, the interior of the hut is dark.
  In the middle of the first period, Lauren sat down next to me.
  Studies of the environment indicate that the agricultural landscape of the frontier area was maintained as it had been in the Roman period until the middle of the sixth century.
  After the middle of the Choson Period, the handles became longer and thicker and straighter and the round part became very round.
  The true giants did not arrive until the middle of the Cretaceous period.
  In the middle of the reproductive period most bugs carry eggs.
  Aren't those jerks supposed to chirp at dawn, not the middle of the night?
  Yesterday, however, sleet began to fall about the middle of the afternoon and continued through the night.
  After that period to the middle of the sixteenth century they are, with the exception of those of the school of Ferrara, mostly large.
  Secondly, when you do give her your gifts during the middle of the period, she will be so relieved that she won't realize that you've messed up her lecture.
  In the middle of the period are the splendid voluntaries, written by Henry Heron, John Keeble and William Russell.
  In the middle of the third period, Aaron rushed into the classroom, startling everyone in the class.
  I was answering the phone with a ‘good afternoon’ by half ten in the morning and it felt like the middle of the night by the time we started this evening's show at seven.
  Irma is hoping the Commission will agree to an extension of the copyright period by the middle of next year.
  In the middle of the period, I was sitting, doing nothing when the teacher said something that caught my ear.
  Synonyms
  centre, mean, median, mid point, halfway point, dead centre, focal point, focus, hub, nucleus, midst
2. 1.2informal A person's waist or waist and stomach.
  〈非正式〉腰部；身体中部
  he had a towel around his middle
  他在腰间裹了一条浴巾。
  Example sentencesExamples
  One was slightly large round the middle, the other wearing a very short skirt and denim jacket.
  He was tall and broad-chested, if a bit round at the middle, and dressed much better than these other two.
  He was a little big round the middle, and his beard had little grey speckles in it.
  She was shorter than I was by a good ten inches, round about the middle, but with the firm energy that my father used to possess.
  But the other two, the one with the round middle and the one with sleek black hair, she had known all her life.
  Their Italian shoes are unscuffed and their ties are always straight and they never go bald or get paunchy around the middle.
  She yelled, grabbing me around the waist and bucking me in the middle.
  A middle-aged man with a round middle came running out of the supposed home office.
  Synonyms
  midriff, waist, waistline, belly, gut, stomach, paunch, pot belly, beer belly
2Grammar
The form or voice of a verb expressing reflexive or reciprocal action, or a passive sense for a transitive or intransitive verb.
〔语法〕中动态，中间反身态
Example sentencesExamples
- Other standard grammars use different lexemes but communicate the same reflexive idea for the middle.
- The middle, or Third Voice, can help the congregation be unafraid of conflict and to welcome it as an opportunity.
3Logic
short for middle term

adjectiveˈmidlˈmɪdl

1At an equal distance from the extremities of something; central.
中部的，中间的，中央的，当中的
the early and middle part of life
生命的早期和中期。
middle and eastern Europe
中欧和东欧。
Example sentencesExamples
- For many years, middle and long distance running has been the strong point of our sport with field events and sprinting being the poor relations.
- In the third scenario, all heavy vehicles are restricted from the use of the left and middle lanes.
- Put simply, over the past quarter of a century he has become arguably the most successful coach in the history of middle and long distance running.
- The goal of this study was to examine how children in the early and middle childhood periods perceive social withdrawal.
- Throughout development, the peripheral cells were larger than cells of the middle or central zones in both lines.
- Keep to the middle path between extremes - it's easy going overboard and much harder clambering back.
- So, too, are ventures into the middle and long distance freestyles.
- The ‘power center’ retail area and anchor stores would go up in the middle and eastern part of the site.
- The camera is on the central robot arm opposite the middle port.
- The middle section shows his spine and central body organs.
- When comparing flushes, the highest card is compared first, then if these are equal the middle card, and finally if necessary the lowest.
- Apparently he will be be the last witness of the day, which means he may not testify until middle or late afternoon Eastern Time.
- Poole knows England's, as well as Britain's, standing in the world of middle and long distance running isn't as high as it once was.
- But they forget completely about eastern, middle, and southeastern Europe.
- Identify the price action moving toward the median or middle line.
- Using electric motors, the middle seat slides rearward into a central location.
- It is common in the understory of open mixed woodlands at middle elevations in the eastern and southeastern Iberian Peninsula.
- In the new works, she reduces her choice of colors to three, merging the middle bands into a large central field.
- In both a lit area in the middle foreground helps to define our distance from the main object.
- We're dealing here with the rule and not the exception, the middle, not the extremities.
Synonyms
central, mid, mean, medium, medial, median, midway, halfway, equidistant, mesial
1. 1.1 (of a member of a group, series, or sequence) so placed as to have the same number of members on each side.
  （群、系列、序列中）居中的，中间的
  the woman was in her middle forties
  那妇女四十五六岁。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Denami, the middle brother, comes upon this bear and, thinking it killed the first brother, vows revenge.
  Milos Valnik turned out to be a bulky man in his middle forties, probably because he was dressed for winter.
  However, the WHO has not ruled out the possibility, because the middle brother cared for the elder sibling before he died.
  Each member of the team is credited with the time of the fifth team member to cross the finish line; this is the middle member of a nine-person team.
  This sculpture belongs to the period in his middle 30s when his work was mainly Cubist.
  The instructor of visual arts was in his middle forties, equipped with a sinewy body and a receding hairline.
  Mikie was the middle brother of the five, and had been doted on by all because of his charm and good nature.
  Matt sat with one of his brothers in the middle seat, and the back seat was filled with Matt's two younger brothers.
  So Casey and Chris ran their tag-team critique past Eric, the middle brother, as they had in previous offseasons.
  Before his marriage, my middle brother converted to Judaism.
  Suzanne and her brother Matt were the middle children in the family and neither seemed to care much about doing things proper.
  If it was that important to his middle brother, it was important to him, too.
  The trio is referred to as big brother, middle brother and small brother.
  Charles and Matthew, the two middle brothers who rarely left the manor, were taken back to their quarters by servants.
  In their middle years, the members of the Baby Boom generation will face the inevitability of their mortality.
  My mother used to take me and my middle brother to bluebell woods, somewhere in Kent, just for a treat.
  The language in the court cases began to change during the middle two decades of the period.
  So instead of being a film about a mouse trying to fit in with humans, we get a far more banal film about a middle brother's loneliness.
  He was always insulting either Tom or the middle brother, Timothy.
  Some in the union urged choosing a nurse who reflected average real nurses on the job - middle forties and overworked.
2. 1.2 Intermediate in rank, quality, or ability.
  （职位，品质，能力）中级的，中等的
  there is a dearth of talent at the middle level
  缺乏中级人才。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At times, her attacks were directed straightforwardly against the vulgarity of the middle ranks.
  The rest are stuck at the lower and middle levels of the managerial hierarchy.
  The depicted individuals were of high and middle social rank but were not always wealthy.
  While the union executives have advanced this project intensively, there is substantial resistance to it by a middle level of functionaries.
  One of the big challenges is to recruit from the middle ranks upwards.
  Struggling students in the intermediate and middle grades need plenty of practice in reading whole texts that are not too difficult to handle.
  He was well educated and went to Rome at the appropriate time for a member of his middle upper-class.
  Every crop failure flings masses of the middle peasants into the ranks of the proletariat.
  When it comes to deprivation, Bexley sits fairly comfortably in the middle ranks of the country but the Government-compiled figures mask a harsh reality.
  As a middle level power we have extensive experience as an honest broker, developing constructive approaches to global and regional problems.
  But the novel is also haunted by a mysterious evacuation of the middle ranks.
  With remedial support and input from us he progressed to be in the middle level in most subjects.
  But the real discrimination was taking place in the middle ranks and that was where we had the hardest time.
  Even with a limited skill set, he should have enough left in the tank to handle the flotsam that occupies the middle ranks of the division.
  Improvements in lifestyle behaviours seem to have been achieved primarily by those with middle incomes and higher levels of education.
  Sean is a business major and is already working in the middle ranks of a high paying company.
  Among big customers it happens down among the middle tiers on both sides.
  The bulk of popular features are available at the middle subscription level.
  Most southerners are not descendants of southern aristocracy but hail from the middle ranks, like many of the people in this book.
  Often members of the middle and upper-middle class, these customers are willing to spend their dollars on the luxuries they love.
  Synonyms
  intermediate, intermedial, intermediary, inner, inside
3. 1.3 (of a language) of the period between the old and modern forms.
  （语言）中古的，介于现代与古代之间的
  Middle High German
  中古高地德语。
2Grammar
Denoting a voice of verbs in some languages, such as Greek, which expresses reciprocal or reflexive action.
〔语法〕中动态的，中间反身态的
Example sentencesExamples
- The middle voice spoke not only for but also to the Greek sense of self.
- The word appears in both the active and the middle voice in Luke, the Pauline corpus, Hebrews, James and 1 Peter.
- I will argue that the validity of the notion of deponency is questionable in light of a closer look at the function and meaning of the middle voice in Greek.
- Is this in any way related to an inherent middle voice?
- We have already observed that during the time of Hellenistic Greek, the middle voice form was losing ground to the passive.
1. 2.1 Denoting a transitive or intransitive verb in English with a passive sense, e.g., cuts in this meat cuts well.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Further, with all forms except the aorist and future, we are not able to tell whether a verb is middle or passive.

Phrases

down the middle

Divided or dividing something equally into two parts.
从中间平分的
Example sentencesExamples
- There must be a magic line down the middle of the street that divides the good air from the bad air.
- Within a week, he said, there'll be a chalk line down the middle of the living room, with one of you on either side.
- With the nation divided down the middle, it was proof that Democrats should take nothing for granted.
- The road is narrow, admittedly, but there is a white line down the middle.
- An idea is to split the trailer down the middle and divide into compartments.
- One has to have a central line down the middle of the book to hold the design together.
- He jumps to his feet and draws an imaginary line down the middle of the table.
- The two-ref system sees the soccer pitch divided down the middle, from goal to goal, by an imaginary line.
- These two divide their page down the middle, one column each, and blog independently of each other.
- On the second mirror a thin line is placed running down the middle from top to bottom.

in the middle of

1Engaged in or in the process of doing something.
正忙于；在做…的中途
Example sentencesExamples
- A nurse would leave in the middle of a procedure, promising to return, but fail to do so.
- We are right in the middle of our annual business planning process which I have the lead for.
- We caught up with Wiley in the middle of hectic preparations for his second video shoot.
1. 1.1Involved in something, typically something unpleasant or dangerous.
  介入（尤指令人不快或危险的事）
  he was caught in the middle of the emotional triangle
  他陷于三角情感中。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We would still be in the middle of a terrible employment tribunal and discipline.
  In fact, if experts are to be believed, we are in the middle of a shyness epidemic.

steer (or take) a middle course

Adopt a policy which avoids extremes.
取中庸之道，不走极端
Example sentencesExamples
- The result is a comprehensive and, in places, detailed account of the life of this king that generally steers a middle course through the many controversies of his reign.
- But Guy reveals how Mary shrewdly steered a middle course between her enemies and supporters.
- The United States has generally been served best by toughminded leaders who steered a middle course.
- But both sides, while unctuously claiming that of course they themselves take a middle course and believe in both genes and culture, seemingly remain convinced that no one on the other side does.
- But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Origin

Old English middel, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch middel and German Mittel, also to mid.

单词	middle
释义	Definition of middle in English: middle noun ˈmɪd(ə)lˈmɪdl 1usually in singular The point or position at an equal distance from the sides, edges, or ends of something. 中部，中间，中央，当中 she stood alone in the middle of the street 她独自一人站在街中央。 Example sentencesExamples Her blue slacks were creased neatly down the sides in the exact middle of the gold stripe that told everyone she was from Central. Twisting lace vines snaked up the middle on both sides of the pearl buttons. Eva sat a chair away from either, in the middle on the side of the table. From there, start digging from the middle out or the edge in. About six years ago, I changed the part in my hair from the middle to the side. It was a little shorter than knee length on the sides, and in the front, it got longer in a diagonal line, and the two sides overlapped in the middle. The two large pipe corrals were situated side by side in the middle. Later, on a much larger timescale, they gradually start to explore the positions toward the middle of the DNA segment. In the middle of the two sides of this are large domes built on pillars of the same height as those of the outer arcade and an upper gallery runs all round it. A low table with cushions on either side occupied the middle of the room. He loses interest in the drawers and continues to walk in a crouch position toward the middle of the desk and the chair. Well here I have a single bed, so, my favourite side is the middle. This effectively levitated the stone to a floating position in the middle. If two people are erecting the structure, each takes a side of the tipi cover and pulls it around the poles until the sides meet in the middle on the far side. His furnace was placed at the middle of a side wall, where waste heat could be sucked up a chimney to prevent the workshop from becoming too hot in summer. Drain the blister with a sterile needle by piercing the edge, not the middle. Rogers learns quickly and can play the strong side and the middle. Use a roller to make sure it adheres well - roll from the middle out to the edges. You don't want to pick it up on the left or the right side but in the middle. If the action is in the middle, both sides are cropped. 1.1 The point at or around the centre of a period of time, activity, etc. （过程、活动、一段时间）中间，当中 we were married in the middle of December 我们是在12月中旬结婚的。 Example sentencesExamples But it added that if the issues fail to be resolved through negotiations, it would launch collective activities from the middle of next month. Although it is the middle of the afternoon, the interior of the hut is dark. Our province desperately needs a party to once again position themselves in the middle where most of the voting block is. Secondly, when you do give her your gifts during the middle of the period, she will be so relieved that she won't realize that you've messed up her lecture. The position of deputy mayor in charge of administering city funds has been vacant for nine months, but the mayor hopes to fill the position by the middle of this month. The true giants did not arrive until the middle of the Cretaceous period. I was answering the phone with a ‘good afternoon’ by half ten in the morning and it felt like the middle of the night by the time we started this evening's show at seven. Yesterday, however, sleet began to fall about the middle of the afternoon and continued through the night. In the middle of the reproductive period most bugs carry eggs. Studies of the environment indicate that the agricultural landscape of the frontier area was maintained as it had been in the Roman period until the middle of the sixth century. In the middle of the first period, Lauren sat down next to me. Cotton harvest is generally evenly distributed in activity from the middle of August through the end of November. Aren't those jerks supposed to chirp at dawn, not the middle of the night? In the middle of the period are the splendid voluntaries, written by Henry Heron, John Keeble and William Russell. After the middle of the Choson Period, the handles became longer and thicker and straighter and the round part became very round. After that period to the middle of the sixteenth century they are, with the exception of those of the school of Ferrara, mostly large. In the middle of the period, I was sitting, doing nothing when the teacher said something that caught my ear. Their maximum was found after the middle of the light period. Irma is hoping the Commission will agree to an extension of the copyright period by the middle of next year. In the middle of the third period, Aaron rushed into the classroom, startling everyone in the class. Synonyms centre, mean, median, mid point, halfway point, dead centre, focal point, focus, hub, nucleus, midst eye, heart, core, kernel, bosom, interior, depths, thick, bullseye 1.2informal A person's waist and stomach. 〈非正式〉腰部；身体中部 he had a towel round his middle 他在腰间裹了一条浴巾。 Example sentencesExamples But the other two, the one with the round middle and the one with sleek black hair, she had known all her life. She was shorter than I was by a good ten inches, round about the middle, but with the firm energy that my father used to possess. She yelled, grabbing me around the waist and bucking me in the middle. He was tall and broad-chested, if a bit round at the middle, and dressed much better than these other two. He was a little big round the middle, and his beard had little grey speckles in it. A middle-aged man with a round middle came running out of the supposed home office. One was slightly large round the middle, the other wearing a very short skirt and denim jacket. Their Italian shoes are unscuffed and their ties are always straight and they never go bald or get paunchy around the middle. Synonyms midriff, waist, waistline, belly, gut, stomach, paunch, pot belly, beer belly informal tummy, tum, pot, bread basket 2Grammar The form or voice of a verb expressing reflexive or reciprocal action. 〔语法〕中动态，中间反身态 Example sentencesExamples The middle, or Third Voice, can help the congregation be unafraid of conflict and to welcome it as an opportunity. Other standard grammars use different lexemes but communicate the same reflexive idea for the middle. 3Logic short for middle term adjective ˈmɪd(ə)lˈmɪdl 1attributive At an equal distance from the extremities of something; central. 中部的，中间的，中央的，当中的 the early and middle part of life 生命的早期和中期。 middle and eastern Europe 中欧和东欧。 Example sentencesExamples Identify the price action moving toward the median or middle line. Put simply, over the past quarter of a century he has become arguably the most successful coach in the history of middle and long distance running. Throughout development, the peripheral cells were larger than cells of the middle or central zones in both lines. So, too, are ventures into the middle and long distance freestyles. In the new works, she reduces her choice of colors to three, merging the middle bands into a large central field. But they forget completely about eastern, middle, and southeastern Europe. When comparing flushes, the highest card is compared first, then if these are equal the middle card, and finally if necessary the lowest. The camera is on the central robot arm opposite the middle port. It is common in the understory of open mixed woodlands at middle elevations in the eastern and southeastern Iberian Peninsula. The ‘power center’ retail area and anchor stores would go up in the middle and eastern part of the site. For many years, middle and long distance running has been the strong point of our sport with field events and sprinting being the poor relations. The goal of this study was to examine how children in the early and middle childhood periods perceive social withdrawal. In both a lit area in the middle foreground helps to define our distance from the main object. Keep to the middle path between extremes - it's easy going overboard and much harder clambering back. Using electric motors, the middle seat slides rearward into a central location. In the third scenario, all heavy vehicles are restricted from the use of the left and middle lanes. Poole knows England's, as well as Britain's, standing in the world of middle and long distance running isn't as high as it once was. Apparently he will be be the last witness of the day, which means he may not testify until middle or late afternoon Eastern Time. The middle section shows his spine and central body organs. We're dealing here with the rule and not the exception, the middle, not the extremities. Synonyms central, mid, mean, medium, medial, median, midway, halfway, equidistant, mesial 1.1 (of a member of a group or sequence) placed so as to have the same number of members on each side. （群、系列、序列中）居中的，中间的 the woman was in her middle forties 那妇女四十五六岁。 Example sentencesExamples Suzanne and her brother Matt were the middle children in the family and neither seemed to care much about doing things proper. The instructor of visual arts was in his middle forties, equipped with a sinewy body and a receding hairline. My mother used to take me and my middle brother to bluebell woods, somewhere in Kent, just for a treat. Some in the union urged choosing a nurse who reflected average real nurses on the job - middle forties and overworked. However, the WHO has not ruled out the possibility, because the middle brother cared for the elder sibling before he died. This sculpture belongs to the period in his middle 30s when his work was mainly Cubist. Charles and Matthew, the two middle brothers who rarely left the manor, were taken back to their quarters by servants. If it was that important to his middle brother, it was important to him, too. Before his marriage, my middle brother converted to Judaism. Each member of the team is credited with the time of the fifth team member to cross the finish line; this is the middle member of a nine-person team. He was always insulting either Tom or the middle brother, Timothy. Matt sat with one of his brothers in the middle seat, and the back seat was filled with Matt's two younger brothers. The language in the court cases began to change during the middle two decades of the period. The trio is referred to as big brother, middle brother and small brother. Milos Valnik turned out to be a bulky man in his middle forties, probably because he was dressed for winter. So Casey and Chris ran their tag-team critique past Eric, the middle brother, as they had in previous offseasons. So instead of being a film about a mouse trying to fit in with humans, we get a far more banal film about a middle brother's loneliness. Denami, the middle brother, comes upon this bear and, thinking it killed the first brother, vows revenge. In their middle years, the members of the Baby Boom generation will face the inevitability of their mortality. Mikie was the middle brother of the five, and had been doted on by all because of his charm and good nature. 1.2 Intermediate in rank, quality, or ability. （职位，品质，能力）中级的，中等的 there is a dearth of talent at middle level 缺乏中级人才。 Example sentencesExamples He was well educated and went to Rome at the appropriate time for a member of his middle upper-class. But the real discrimination was taking place in the middle ranks and that was where we had the hardest time. But the novel is also haunted by a mysterious evacuation of the middle ranks. Sean is a business major and is already working in the middle ranks of a high paying company. While the union executives have advanced this project intensively, there is substantial resistance to it by a middle level of functionaries. Struggling students in the intermediate and middle grades need plenty of practice in reading whole texts that are not too difficult to handle. Often members of the middle and upper-middle class, these customers are willing to spend their dollars on the luxuries they love. Among big customers it happens down among the middle tiers on both sides. As a middle level power we have extensive experience as an honest broker, developing constructive approaches to global and regional problems. Every crop failure flings masses of the middle peasants into the ranks of the proletariat. When it comes to deprivation, Bexley sits fairly comfortably in the middle ranks of the country but the Government-compiled figures mask a harsh reality. The rest are stuck at the lower and middle levels of the managerial hierarchy. Even with a limited skill set, he should have enough left in the tank to handle the flotsam that occupies the middle ranks of the division. With remedial support and input from us he progressed to be in the middle level in most subjects. Most southerners are not descendants of southern aristocracy but hail from the middle ranks, like many of the people in this book. One of the big challenges is to recruit from the middle ranks upwards. At times, her attacks were directed straightforwardly against the vulgarity of the middle ranks. The depicted individuals were of high and middle social rank but were not always wealthy. The bulk of popular features are available at the middle subscription level. Improvements in lifestyle behaviours seem to have been achieved primarily by those with middle incomes and higher levels of education. Synonyms intermediate, intermedial, intermediary, inner, inside 1.3 (of a language) of the period between the old and modern forms. （语言）中古的，介于现代与古代之间的 Middle High German 中古高地德语。 2Grammar attributive Denoting a voice of verbs in some languages, such as Greek, which expresses reciprocal or reflexive action. 〔语法〕中动态的，中间反身态的 Example sentencesExamples Is this in any way related to an inherent middle voice? We have already observed that during the time of Hellenistic Greek, the middle voice form was losing ground to the passive. The word appears in both the active and the middle voice in Luke, the Pauline corpus, Hebrews, James and 1 Peter. I will argue that the validity of the notion of deponency is questionable in light of a closer look at the function and meaning of the middle voice in Greek. The middle voice spoke not only for but also to the Greek sense of self. 2.1 Denoting a transitive verb in English which does not have an equivalent passive, e.g. had in he had an idea. （英语及物动词）无被动态的 Example sentencesExamples Further, with all forms except the aorist and future, we are not able to tell whether a verb is middle or passive. verb ˈmɪd(ə)l [with object] (in cricket, tennis, etc.) strike (the ball) with the middle of the bat, racket, or club. （板球、网球等中）用球棒（或拍）中部击（球） every shot he took on, he middled Example sentencesExamples ‘Every shot he took on, he middled,’ said an admiring Collingwood. I was middling the ball well and continued from where I had left off after my good score against Zimbabwe in the previous game. However, Sarwan can't be blamed too much for his dismissal, as Younis Khan held a stinging effort at short extra cover as Sarwan middled a drive. Patel, who was middling the ball quite well during his 203 minute vigil at the crease, edged an outside-the-off-stump delivery from Akbar to see Kamran Akmal take a superb diving catch behind the stumps. The fact is, I focus on middling the ball for the ‘feel.’ We got him out in the 20s with a mistimed shot, but if he had middled the ball, it would have come down in Rawtenstall! Phrases down the middle Divided or dividing something equally into two parts. 从中间平分的 draw a line down the middle of a sheet of paper figurative the country's split down the middle on this thing Example sentencesExamples With the nation divided down the middle, it was proof that Democrats should take nothing for granted. He jumps to his feet and draws an imaginary line down the middle of the table. The road is narrow, admittedly, but there is a white line down the middle. The two-ref system sees the soccer pitch divided down the middle, from goal to goal, by an imaginary line. An idea is to split the trailer down the middle and divide into compartments. There must be a magic line down the middle of the street that divides the good air from the bad air. These two divide their page down the middle, one column each, and blog independently of each other. On the second mirror a thin line is placed running down the middle from top to bottom. One has to have a central line down the middle of the book to hold the design together. Within a week, he said, there'll be a chalk line down the middle of the living room, with one of you on either side. in the middle of 1In the process of doing (something) 正忙于；在做…的中途 the company is in the middle of negotiations 那妇女四十五六岁。 Example sentencesExamples We caught up with Wiley in the middle of hectic preparations for his second video shoot. A nurse would leave in the middle of a procedure, promising to return, but fail to do so. We are right in the middle of our annual business planning process which I have the lead for. 1.1Involved in (something, typically something unpleasant) 介入（尤指令人不快或危险的事） he was caught in the middle of the emotional triangle 他陷于三角情感中。 Example sentencesExamples In fact, if experts are to be believed, we are in the middle of a shyness epidemic. We would still be in the middle of a terrible employment tribunal and discipline. steer (or take) a middle course Adopt a policy which avoids extremes. 取中庸之道，不走极端 Example sentencesExamples But both sides, while unctuously claiming that of course they themselves take a middle course and believe in both genes and culture, seemingly remain convinced that no one on the other side does. The United States has generally been served best by toughminded leaders who steered a middle course. The result is a comprehensive and, in places, detailed account of the life of this king that generally steers a middle course through the many controversies of his reign. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. But Guy reveals how Mary shrewdly steered a middle course between her enemies and supporters. Origin Old English middel, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch middel and German Mittel, also to mid¹. Rhymes fiddle, griddle, kiddle, Liddell, piddle, riddle, twiddle noun.1 phr. Definition of middle in US English: middle nounˈmidlˈmɪdl 1usually in singular The point or position at an equal distance from the sides, edges, or ends of something. 中部，中间，中央，当中 she stood alone in the middle of the street 她独自一人站在街中央。 Example sentencesExamples Her blue slacks were creased neatly down the sides in the exact middle of the gold stripe that told everyone she was from Central. Later, on a much larger timescale, they gradually start to explore the positions toward the middle of the DNA segment. This effectively levitated the stone to a floating position in the middle. About six years ago, I changed the part in my hair from the middle to the side. His furnace was placed at the middle of a side wall, where waste heat could be sucked up a chimney to prevent the workshop from becoming too hot in summer. Drain the blister with a sterile needle by piercing the edge, not the middle. From there, start digging from the middle out or the edge in. If two people are erecting the structure, each takes a side of the tipi cover and pulls it around the poles until the sides meet in the middle on the far side. A low table with cushions on either side occupied the middle of the room. Eva sat a chair away from either, in the middle on the side of the table. He loses interest in the drawers and continues to walk in a crouch position toward the middle of the desk and the chair. In the middle of the two sides of this are large domes built on pillars of the same height as those of the outer arcade and an upper gallery runs all round it. Twisting lace vines snaked up the middle on both sides of the pearl buttons. You don't want to pick it up on the left or the right side but in the middle. Rogers learns quickly and can play the strong side and the middle. Use a roller to make sure it adheres well - roll from the middle out to the edges. Well here I have a single bed, so, my favourite side is the middle. It was a little shorter than knee length on the sides, and in the front, it got longer in a diagonal line, and the two sides overlapped in the middle. If the action is in the middle, both sides are cropped. The two large pipe corrals were situated side by side in the middle. 1.1 The point at or around the center of a process or activity, period of time, etc. （过程、活动、一段时间）中间，当中 we were married in the middle of December 我们是在12月中旬结婚的。 Example sentencesExamples Cotton harvest is generally evenly distributed in activity from the middle of August through the end of November. The position of deputy mayor in charge of administering city funds has been vacant for nine months, but the mayor hopes to fill the position by the middle of this month. Our province desperately needs a party to once again position themselves in the middle where most of the voting block is. Their maximum was found after the middle of the light period. But it added that if the issues fail to be resolved through negotiations, it would launch collective activities from the middle of next month. Although it is the middle of the afternoon, the interior of the hut is dark. In the middle of the first period, Lauren sat down next to me. Studies of the environment indicate that the agricultural landscape of the frontier area was maintained as it had been in the Roman period until the middle of the sixth century. After the middle of the Choson Period, the handles became longer and thicker and straighter and the round part became very round. The true giants did not arrive until the middle of the Cretaceous period. In the middle of the reproductive period most bugs carry eggs. Aren't those jerks supposed to chirp at dawn, not the middle of the night? Yesterday, however, sleet began to fall about the middle of the afternoon and continued through the night. After that period to the middle of the sixteenth century they are, with the exception of those of the school of Ferrara, mostly large. Secondly, when you do give her your gifts during the middle of the period, she will be so relieved that she won't realize that you've messed up her lecture. In the middle of the period are the splendid voluntaries, written by Henry Heron, John Keeble and William Russell. In the middle of the third period, Aaron rushed into the classroom, startling everyone in the class. I was answering the phone with a ‘good afternoon’ by half ten in the morning and it felt like the middle of the night by the time we started this evening's show at seven. Irma is hoping the Commission will agree to an extension of the copyright period by the middle of next year. In the middle of the period, I was sitting, doing nothing when the teacher said something that caught my ear. Synonyms centre, mean, median, mid point, halfway point, dead centre, focal point, focus, hub, nucleus, midst 1.2informal A person's waist or waist and stomach. 〈非正式〉腰部；身体中部 he had a towel around his middle 他在腰间裹了一条浴巾。 Example sentencesExamples One was slightly large round the middle, the other wearing a very short skirt and denim jacket. He was tall and broad-chested, if a bit round at the middle, and dressed much better than these other two. He was a little big round the middle, and his beard had little grey speckles in it. She was shorter than I was by a good ten inches, round about the middle, but with the firm energy that my father used to possess. But the other two, the one with the round middle and the one with sleek black hair, she had known all her life. Their Italian shoes are unscuffed and their ties are always straight and they never go bald or get paunchy around the middle. She yelled, grabbing me around the waist and bucking me in the middle. A middle-aged man with a round middle came running out of the supposed home office. Synonyms midriff, waist, waistline, belly, gut, stomach, paunch, pot belly, beer belly 2Grammar The form or voice of a verb expressing reflexive or reciprocal action, or a passive sense for a transitive or intransitive verb. 〔语法〕中动态，中间反身态 Example sentencesExamples Other standard grammars use different lexemes but communicate the same reflexive idea for the middle. The middle, or Third Voice, can help the congregation be unafraid of conflict and to welcome it as an opportunity. 3Logic short for middle term adjectiveˈmidlˈmɪdl 1At an equal distance from the extremities of something; central. 中部的，中间的，中央的，当中的 the early and middle part of life 生命的早期和中期。 middle and eastern Europe 中欧和东欧。 Example sentencesExamples For many years, middle and long distance running has been the strong point of our sport with field events and sprinting being the poor relations. In the third scenario, all heavy vehicles are restricted from the use of the left and middle lanes. Put simply, over the past quarter of a century he has become arguably the most successful coach in the history of middle and long distance running. The goal of this study was to examine how children in the early and middle childhood periods perceive social withdrawal. Throughout development, the peripheral cells were larger than cells of the middle or central zones in both lines. Keep to the middle path between extremes - it's easy going overboard and much harder clambering back. So, too, are ventures into the middle and long distance freestyles. The ‘power center’ retail area and anchor stores would go up in the middle and eastern part of the site. The camera is on the central robot arm opposite the middle port. The middle section shows his spine and central body organs. When comparing flushes, the highest card is compared first, then if these are equal the middle card, and finally if necessary the lowest. Apparently he will be be the last witness of the day, which means he may not testify until middle or late afternoon Eastern Time. Poole knows England's, as well as Britain's, standing in the world of middle and long distance running isn't as high as it once was. But they forget completely about eastern, middle, and southeastern Europe. Identify the price action moving toward the median or middle line. Using electric motors, the middle seat slides rearward into a central location. It is common in the understory of open mixed woodlands at middle elevations in the eastern and southeastern Iberian Peninsula. In the new works, she reduces her choice of colors to three, merging the middle bands into a large central field. In both a lit area in the middle foreground helps to define our distance from the main object. We're dealing here with the rule and not the exception, the middle, not the extremities. Synonyms central, mid, mean, medium, medial, median, midway, halfway, equidistant, mesial 1.1 (of a member of a group, series, or sequence) so placed as to have the same number of members on each side. （群、系列、序列中）居中的，中间的 the woman was in her middle forties 那妇女四十五六岁。 Example sentencesExamples Denami, the middle brother, comes upon this bear and, thinking it killed the first brother, vows revenge. Milos Valnik turned out to be a bulky man in his middle forties, probably because he was dressed for winter. However, the WHO has not ruled out the possibility, because the middle brother cared for the elder sibling before he died. Each member of the team is credited with the time of the fifth team member to cross the finish line; this is the middle member of a nine-person team. This sculpture belongs to the period in his middle 30s when his work was mainly Cubist. The instructor of visual arts was in his middle forties, equipped with a sinewy body and a receding hairline. Mikie was the middle brother of the five, and had been doted on by all because of his charm and good nature. Matt sat with one of his brothers in the middle seat, and the back seat was filled with Matt's two younger brothers. So Casey and Chris ran their tag-team critique past Eric, the middle brother, as they had in previous offseasons. Before his marriage, my middle brother converted to Judaism. Suzanne and her brother Matt were the middle children in the family and neither seemed to care much about doing things proper. If it was that important to his middle brother, it was important to him, too. The trio is referred to as big brother, middle brother and small brother. Charles and Matthew, the two middle brothers who rarely left the manor, were taken back to their quarters by servants. In their middle years, the members of the Baby Boom generation will face the inevitability of their mortality. My mother used to take me and my middle brother to bluebell woods, somewhere in Kent, just for a treat. The language in the court cases began to change during the middle two decades of the period. So instead of being a film about a mouse trying to fit in with humans, we get a far more banal film about a middle brother's loneliness. He was always insulting either Tom or the middle brother, Timothy. Some in the union urged choosing a nurse who reflected average real nurses on the job - middle forties and overworked. 1.2 Intermediate in rank, quality, or ability. （职位，品质，能力）中级的，中等的 there is a dearth of talent at the middle level 缺乏中级人才。 Example sentencesExamples At times, her attacks were directed straightforwardly against the vulgarity of the middle ranks. The rest are stuck at the lower and middle levels of the managerial hierarchy. The depicted individuals were of high and middle social rank but were not always wealthy. While the union executives have advanced this project intensively, there is substantial resistance to it by a middle level of functionaries. One of the big challenges is to recruit from the middle ranks upwards. Struggling students in the intermediate and middle grades need plenty of practice in reading whole texts that are not too difficult to handle. He was well educated and went to Rome at the appropriate time for a member of his middle upper-class. Every crop failure flings masses of the middle peasants into the ranks of the proletariat. When it comes to deprivation, Bexley sits fairly comfortably in the middle ranks of the country but the Government-compiled figures mask a harsh reality. As a middle level power we have extensive experience as an honest broker, developing constructive approaches to global and regional problems. But the novel is also haunted by a mysterious evacuation of the middle ranks. With remedial support and input from us he progressed to be in the middle level in most subjects. But the real discrimination was taking place in the middle ranks and that was where we had the hardest time. Even with a limited skill set, he should have enough left in the tank to handle the flotsam that occupies the middle ranks of the division. Improvements in lifestyle behaviours seem to have been achieved primarily by those with middle incomes and higher levels of education. Sean is a business major and is already working in the middle ranks of a high paying company. Among big customers it happens down among the middle tiers on both sides. The bulk of popular features are available at the middle subscription level. Most southerners are not descendants of southern aristocracy but hail from the middle ranks, like many of the people in this book. Often members of the middle and upper-middle class, these customers are willing to spend their dollars on the luxuries they love. Synonyms intermediate, intermedial, intermediary, inner, inside 1.3 (of a language) of the period between the old and modern forms. （语言）中古的，介于现代与古代之间的 Middle High German 中古高地德语。 2Grammar Denoting a voice of verbs in some languages, such as Greek, which expresses reciprocal or reflexive action. 〔语法〕中动态的，中间反身态的 Example sentencesExamples The middle voice spoke not only for but also to the Greek sense of self. The word appears in both the active and the middle voice in Luke, the Pauline corpus, Hebrews, James and 1 Peter. I will argue that the validity of the notion of deponency is questionable in light of a closer look at the function and meaning of the middle voice in Greek. Is this in any way related to an inherent middle voice? We have already observed that during the time of Hellenistic Greek, the middle voice form was losing ground to the passive. 2.1 Denoting a transitive or intransitive verb in English with a passive sense, e.g., cuts in this meat cuts well. Example sentencesExamples Further, with all forms except the aorist and future, we are not able to tell whether a verb is middle or passive. Phrases down the middle Divided or dividing something equally into two parts. 从中间平分的 Example sentencesExamples There must be a magic line down the middle of the street that divides the good air from the bad air. Within a week, he said, there'll be a chalk line down the middle of the living room, with one of you on either side. With the nation divided down the middle, it was proof that Democrats should take nothing for granted. The road is narrow, admittedly, but there is a white line down the middle. An idea is to split the trailer down the middle and divide into compartments. One has to have a central line down the middle of the book to hold the design together. He jumps to his feet and draws an imaginary line down the middle of the table. The two-ref system sees the soccer pitch divided down the middle, from goal to goal, by an imaginary line. These two divide their page down the middle, one column each, and blog independently of each other. On the second mirror a thin line is placed running down the middle from top to bottom. in the middle of 1Engaged in or in the process of doing something. 正忙于；在做…的中途 Example sentencesExamples A nurse would leave in the middle of a procedure, promising to return, but fail to do so. We are right in the middle of our annual business planning process which I have the lead for. We caught up with Wiley in the middle of hectic preparations for his second video shoot. 1.1Involved in something, typically something unpleasant or dangerous. 介入（尤指令人不快或危险的事） he was caught in the middle of the emotional triangle 他陷于三角情感中。 Example sentencesExamples We would still be in the middle of a terrible employment tribunal and discipline. In fact, if experts are to be believed, we are in the middle of a shyness epidemic. steer (or take) a middle course Adopt a policy which avoids extremes. 取中庸之道，不走极端 Example sentencesExamples The result is a comprehensive and, in places, detailed account of the life of this king that generally steers a middle course through the many controversies of his reign. But Guy reveals how Mary shrewdly steered a middle course between her enemies and supporters. The United States has generally been served best by toughminded leaders who steered a middle course. But both sides, while unctuously claiming that of course they themselves take a middle course and believe in both genes and culture, seemingly remain convinced that no one on the other side does. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Origin Old English middel, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch middel and German Mittel, also to mid. noun.1 phr.
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