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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Peggotty continuing to stand motionless in the middle of the room, and my mother resuming her singing, I fell asleep, though I was not so sound asleep but that I could hear voices, without hearing what they said.
-- I doubt if Icould have felt much stranger if the maps had been real foreigncountries, and I cast away in the middle of them.
-- I was in the middle statebetween sleeping and waking, either then or immediatelyafterwards; for, as he resumed- it was a real fact that he hadstopped playing- I saw and heard the same old woman ask Mrs.Fibbitson if it wasn't delicious (meaning the flute), to which Mrs.Fibbitson replied, 'Ay, ay!yes!'
-- If he looks out through the glass, theboldest boy (Steerforth excepted) stops in the middle of a shout oryell, and becomes contemplative.
-- I went on, by findingsuddenly that somebody was in the middle of a song.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.
-- Chapter XThough now the middle of December, there had yet been no weather to prevent the young ladies from tolerably reg-ular exercise; and on the morrow, Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family, who lived a little way out of Highbury.
-- I am as con-fident of seeing Frank here before the middle of January, as I am of being here myself: but your good friend there (nod-ding towards the upper end of the table) has so few vagaries herself, and has been so little used to them at Hartfield, that she cannot calculate on their effects, as I have been long in the practice of doing.'
-- Mr. Frank Churchill to be making such a speech as that to the uncle and aunt, who have brought him up, and are to provide for him! Standing up in the middle of the room, I suppose, and speaking as loud as he could! How can you imagine such conduct practicable?'
-- But about the middle of the day she gets hungry, and there is nothing she likes so well as these baked apples, and they are extremely wholesome, for I took the opportunity the other day of ask-ing Mr. Perry; I happened to meet him in the street.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- Gabriel's features adhered throughout their form so exactly to the middle line between the beauty of St. John and the ugliness of Judas Iscariot, as represented in a window of the church he attended, that not a single lineament could be selected and called worthy either of distinction or notoriety.
-- One of the women was past middle age.
-- He was a man of more than middle age, with eyebrows high up in his forehead, who laid it down that the law of the world was bad, with a long-suffering look through his listeners at the world alluded to, as it presented itself to his imagination.
-- "And as he was coming along in the middle of the night, much afeared, and not able to find his way out of the trees nohow, 'a cried out, 'Man-a-lost!man-a-lost!'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is an oldish woman, with a bloated countenance, and a nose like a parrot's beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church rat) and her shapeless, slouching figure are in keeping with the room that reeks of misfortune, where hope is reduced to speculate for the meanest stakes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes, with my sails set, I was carried by the wind; and sometimes, after rowing into the middle of the lake, I left the boat to pursue its own course and gave way to 102 Frankensteinmy own miserable reflections.
-- The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable 106 Frankensteinepoch from which I dated all my woe.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clayfields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
-- What a young miss could do and what she couldnot do were as different as black and white in Mammy's mind; there was no middle ground of deportment between.
-- Scarlett, ourSouthern way of living is as antiquated as the feudal system of the Middle Ages.
-- The hair was parted in the middle andarranged in three rolls of graduating size on each side of the head, the largest, nearest the part, being the "cat."
-- True, the Yankees under Grant had been besieging Vicksburg since the middle of May.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An epergne or centre-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable; and, as I looked along the yellow expanse out of which I remember its seeming to grow, like a black fungus, I saw speckle-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it, and running out from it, as if some circumstances of the greatest public importance had just transpired in the spider community.
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