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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The bell wakes me, even in the middle of a dream.'
-- With all these personal advantages (to which may be added a strong savour of tobacco-smoke, and a prevailing greasiness of appearance) Mr Swiveller leant back in his chair with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and occasionally pitching his voice to the needful key, obliged the company with a few bars of an intensely dismal air, and then, in the middle of a note, relapsed into his former silence.
-- Mr Swiviller looked with a supercilious smile at Mr Chegg's toes, then raised his eyes from them to his ankles, from that to his shin, from that to his knee, and so on very gradually, keeping up his right leg, until he reached his waistcoat, when he raised his eyes from button to button until he reached his chin, and travelling straight up the middle of his nose came at last to his eyes, when he said abruptly,'No, sir, I didn't.'
-- At these words Richard Swiviller withdrew his eyes from Mr Chegg's face, and travelling down the middle of his nose and down his waistcoat and down his right leg, reached his toes again, and carefully surveyed him; this done, he crossed over, and coming up the other leg, and thence approaching by the waistcoat as before, said when had got to his eyes, 'No sir, I haven't.'
-- Then, and not until then, Daniel Quilp found himself, all flushed and dishevelled, in the middle of the street, with Mr Richard Swiveller performing a kind of dance round him and requiring to know 'whether he wanted any more?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The eye looking from behind the grating disappeared, and Maslova took to the middle of the corridor, and with short, but rapid strides, followed the warden.
-- A small door in the gate opened, and, crossing the threshold, they passed through the inclosure and took the middle of the paved street.
-- In the middle of the platform stood a table, covered with green cloth, which was fringed with a dark- green lace.
-- Soon after the jurymen came the usher, who, walking sidewise to the middle of the room, shouted, as if he meant to frighten those present: "The court is coming!"
-- In the middle of the church stood the aristocracy; a country squire with his wife and son in a sailor blouse, the commissary of the rural police, a telegraph operator, a merchant in high boots, the local syndic with a medal on his breast, and to the right of the tribune, behind the squire's wife, Matriena Pavlovna, in a lilac-colored chatoyant dress and white shawl with colored border, and beside her was Katiousha in a white dress, gathered in folds at the waist, a blue belt, and a red bow in her black hair.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I say," said the Editor hilariously, "these chaps here say you have been travelling into the middle of next week!Tell us all about little Rosebery, will you?
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If it's very long,' she said, as politely as she could, 'would you please tell me first which road 'Tweedledee smiled gently, and began again:'The sun was shining on the sea,Shining with all his might:He did his very best to makeThe billows smooth and bright And this was odd, because it wasThe middle of the night.
-- Alice had no more breath for talking, so they trotted on in silence, till they came in sight of a great crowd, in the middle of which the Lion and Unicorn were fighting.
-- Alice thought to herself, 'I never should try to remember my name in the middle of an accident!Where would be the use of it?'
-- There were three chairs at the head of the table; the Red and White Queens had already taken two of them, but the middle one was empty.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the leg would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip; now he was a monstrous kind of a creature who had never had but the one leg, and that in the middle of his body.
-- Three men ran together, hand in hand; and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar.
-- It struck poor Tom, point foremost, and with stunning violence, right between the shoulders in the middle of his back.
-- We struck the enclosure about the middle of the south side, and almost at the same time, seven mutineers Job Anderson, the boatswain, at their head appeared in full cry at the southwestern corner.
-- There was a round score of muskets for the seven of us; the firewood had been built into four piles tables, you might say one about the middle of each side, and on each of these tables some ammunition and four loaded muskets were laid ready to the hand of the defenders.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is no rare thing to meet in the middle of the ocean whales so sound asleep that they can be successfully attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one during its sleep.
-- This time there was no mistake!A human voice responded to ours!Was it the voice of another unfortunate creature, abandoned in the middle of the ocean, some other victim of the shock sustained by the vessel?
-- Conseil, going round the reverse way, met me, and we went back to the middle of the cabin, which measured about twenty feet by ten.
-- Here, as in the drawing-room, I have them always under my eyes, and they indicate my position and exact direction in the middle of the ocean.
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