middle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 中间(的) ， 当中(的)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away they all went, twenty couples at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.
-- 50 Sons and LoversStave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits waking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and Asitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One.
-- Gird-ed round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These had been oiled and oiled, until the two tall candles on the table in the middle of the room were gloomily reflected on every leaf; as if THEY were buried, in deep graves of black mahogany, and no light to speak of could be expected from them until they were dug out.
-- The kennel, to make amends, ran down the middle of the street when it ran at all: which was only after heavy rains, and then it ran, by many eccentric fits, into the houses.
-- The garret, built to be a depository for firewood and the like, was dim and dark: for, the window of dormer shape, was in truth a door in the roof, with a little crane over it 53for the hoisting up of stores from the street: unglazed, and closing up the middle in two pieces, like any other door of French construction.
-- As the captive of many years sat looking fixedly, by turns, at Mr. Lorry and at Defarge, some long obliterated marks of an actively intent intelligence in the middle of the fore-head, gradually forced themselves through the black mist that had fallen on him.
-- Nor would it have been an expectation of a hopeful kind, since a small part of his income was derived from the pilotage of timid women (mostly of a full habit and past the middle term of life) from Tellson's side of the tides to the opposite shore.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amongst other things they spoke of the middle ages: some praised that period as far more interesting, far more poetical than our own too sober present; indeed Councillor Knap defended this opin-18 Andersen's Fairy Talesion so warmly, that the hostess declared immediately on his side, and both exerted themselves with unwearied el-oquence.
-- On the floor, in the middle of the room, sat, like a Dalai-Lama, the insig-nificant 'Self' of the person, quite confounded at his own greatness.
-- said he, involuntarily imitating the chatter of the Parrot, and at the same moment he was again a copying-clerk; but he was sitting in the middle of the table.
-- He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking dil-igence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen.
-- 64 Andersen's Fairy Tales And as he spoke the word he was again in his home; the long white curtains hung down from the windows, and in the middle of the floor stood the black coffin; in it he lay in the sleep of death.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few instants later the platform was quivering, and with puffs of steam hanging low in the air from the frost, the engine rolled up, with the lever of the middle wheel rhythmically moving up and down, and the stooping figure of the engine- driver covered with frost.
-- But she was in the middle stage between these two; she was excited, and at the same time she had sufficient self-possession to be able to observe.
-- In the middle of the mazurka, repeating a complicated figure, newly invented by Korsunsky, Anna came forward into the center of the circle, chose two gentlemen, and summoned a lady and Kitty.
-- The celebrated doctor listened to him, and in the middle of his sentence looked at his big gold watch.
-- "But..." The family doctor respectfully ceased in the middle of his observations.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Attired after the fashion of the Middle Ages, they bore upon their shoulders a splendid pair of wings; but what especially distinguished them was the long noses which were fastened to their faces, and the uses which they made of them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young man, left standing alone in the middle of the room, listened inquisitively, thinking.
-- In the middle of the graveyard stood a stone church with a green cupola where he used to go to mass two or three times a year with his father and mother, when a service was held in memory of his grandmother, who had long been dead, and whom he had never seen.
-- In the middle of the room stood Lizaveta with a big bundle in her arms.
-- He stood in the middle of the room, lost in thought.
-- 128 Crime and PunishmentThe floor had only just been painted, in the middle of the room stood a pail and a broken pot with paint and brushes.
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