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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They can't be here till about the middle of the night, so the best thing we can do is to get a good bed and a good supper ready for them."
-- About the middle of the day, however, three flying horsemen, well mounted and well armed came in sight, gazed at them for an instant, and then sped away with inconceivable rapidity.
-- He was broad-shouldered and of middle height, and though his features were coarse, his face was so full of intelligence and energy and decision, that he gave one a favorable impression.
-- All went well till they reached the middle of the Wimerra, but then the hollow deepened, and the water rose to the middle of the wheels.
-- Ayrton turned his team a little toward the great trunks, lost in shadow, and he had got to the skirts of the wood, about half-a-mile from the river, when the wagon suddenly sank up to the middle of the wheels.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.
-- I'd put him at forty years of age, and he was of a middle height, two or three inches shorter than you, sir.
-- In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end, until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.
-- 'You would have thought the middle of that prairie a fairly safe place for a man to be private,' said he, 'but, by thunder, the whole country-side seems to have been out to see me do my wooing and a mighty poor wooing at that!
-- It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it just the one straight yel-low flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an in-tent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity.
-- The middle daughter was now twenty-three, while the young-est, Aglaya, was twenty.
-- He was a remarkably handsome young fellow of some twenty-eight summers, fair and of middle height; he wore a small beard, and his face was most intelligent.
-- And again he stood like a log in the middle of the pave-ment; so amazed that his mouth remained open after the last word had left it.
-- The prince was given the middle room of the three, the first being occupied by one Ferdishenko, while the third was empty.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Hector heard this he was glad, and went about among the Trojan ranks holding his spear by the middle to keep them back, and they all sat down at his bidding: but the Achaeans still aimed at him with stones and arrows, till Agamemnon shouted to them saying, 'Hold, Argives, shoot not, sons of the Achaeans; Hector desires to speak.'
-- Machaon passed into the middle of the ring and at once drew the arrow from the belt, bend-ing its barbs back through the force with which he pulled it out.
-- Thoas came close up to him, pulled the spear out of his chest, and then drawing his sword, smote him in the middle of the belly so that he died; but he did not strip him of his armour, for his Thra-cian comrades, men who wear their hair in a tuft at the top of their heads, stood round the body and kept him off with their long spears for all his great stature and valour; so he was driven back.
-- They threw at the same moment, and Sarpedon struck his foe in the middle of his throat; the spear went right through, and the darkness of death fell upon his eyes.
-- Henceforth, however, I must be your host in middle Argos, and you mine in Lycia, if I should ever go there; let us avoid one another's spears even during a general engagement; there are many noble Trojans and al-lies whom I can kill, if I overtake them and heaven delivers them into my hand; so again with yourself, there are many Achaeans whose lives you may take if you can; we two, then, will exchange armour, that all present may know of the old ties that subsist between us.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes.
-- No crime of any magnitude dating from the middle or end of February was known to have occurred.
-- He pointed to the middle of the page.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of it, a pan full of oil sizzled over a smoky fire, sending out a repelling odor of tallow that took away one's breath.
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