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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Jaggers, turning to the man, who was pulling a lock of hair in the middle of his forehead, like the Bull in Cock Robin pulling at the bell-rope; "your man comes on this afternoon.
-- This piece of water (with an island in the middle which might have been the salad for supper) was of a circular form, and he had constructed a fountain in it, which, when you set a little mill going and took a cork out of a pipe, played to that powerful extent that it made the back of your hand quite wet.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 17JORINDA AND JORINDEL here was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of Ta deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
-- At last he dreamt one night that he found a beautiful pur-ple flower, and that in the middle of it lay a costly pearl; and he dreamt that he plucked the flower, and went with it 20 Grimms' Fairy Talesin his hand into the castle, and that everything he touched with it was disenchanted, and that there he found his Jorin-da again.
-- In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morn-ing, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
-- They had not gone far before they saw a cat sitting in the middle of the road and making a most rueful face.
-- The soldier saw them going down through the trap-door one after another, the eldest leading the way; and thinking he had no time to lose, he jumped up, put on the cloak which the old woman had given him, and followed them; but in the middle of the stairs he trod on the gown of the youngest princess, and she cried out to her sisters, 'All is not right; someone took hold of my gown.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three 16 Gulliver's Travelswho attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on each side to support him.
-- In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover' (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my breeches,) 'we saw a hol-low pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.
-- There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.
-- About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his maj-esty's bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first appre-hended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might 42 Gulliver's Travelsbe something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
-- After they were read, I was demanded to swear to the performance of them; first in the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the method prescribed by their laws; which was, to hold my right foot in my left hand, and to place the middle finger of my right hand on the crown of my head, and my thumb on the tip of 44 Gulliver's Travelsmy right ear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sleary stood in the middle of the room, with the male members of the company about him, exactly as he would have stood in the centre of the ring during his daughter Josephine's performance.
-- Mrs. Sparsit's tea was just set for her on a pert little table, with its tripod of legs in an attitude, which she insinuated after office-hours, into the company of the stern, leathern-topped, long board-table that bestrode the middle of the room.
-- You see this place; you know what sort of a place it is; you are aware that there's not a completer place of its size in this kingdom or elsewhere I don't care where and here, got into the middle of it, like a maggot into a nut, is Josiah Bounderby.
-- They all three went in; and Mr. Gradgrind sat down forlorn, on the Clown's performing chair in the middle of the ring.
-- He saw Mrs. Sparsit fighting out a daily fight at the points of all the weapons in the female armoury, with the grudging, smarting, peevish, tormenting Lady Scadgers, still laid up in bed with her mysterious leg, and gobbling her insufficient income down by about the middle of every quarter, in a mean little airless lodging, a mere closet for one, a mere crib for two; but did he see more?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A large stone standing in the middle of the room was the fireplace; above, in the roof, was a hole for the smoke to pass through.
-- This excellent Icelandic woman was the mother of nineteen children, who, little and big, rolled, crawled, and walked about in the midst of volumes of smoke arising from the angular fireplace in the middle of the room.
-- The great artistic sculptors and builders of the Middle Ages might have here completed their studies with advantage.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was at his ease in the narrow 'great world', that is, landed aristocracy society, but he was shy and ner-vous of all that other big world which consists of the vast hordes of the middle and lower classes, and foreigners.
-- Wragby was a long low old house in brown stone, be-gun about the middle of the eighteenth century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinc-tion.
-- Yet in some curious way it was a visionary experience: it had hit her in the middle of the body.
-- You'll let your youth slip by, and you'll spend your old age, and your middle age too, repenting it.'
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