| 单词 | in the middle of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the middle of ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > position of being in the midst middleeOE mideOE midsa1382 midst1535 the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > position of being among > [noun] middleeOE the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > position of being among > among [preposition] amongeOE amidOE amongst1258 in (the) mids (of)a1382 in the middle ofc1384 amella1400 amidmonga1500 in the midst of1535 in midst (of)a1556 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) cix. 3 (2) Dominaueris in medio inimicorum tuorum : waldes in midle feonda ðinra. OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 36 Þa nam he anne cnapan & gesette on hyra middele. OE Stowe Psalter cxxxv. 11 Qui eduxit israhel de medio eorum : se ðe alædde [israhel] of middele heora. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. vi. 17 Go ȝe out of the myddel of hem. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 342 But oonhede on heed of holi Chirche is Jesus Crist here wiþ us, þat is ever in þe myddil of þree þat ben gedrid in his name. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 2 (MED) He will ger crie it openly in þe middell of a toune. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts xxvii. 18–26 Than Paul standyng in the mydle amonge them, sayed [etc.]. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 181 [He] is come to rob me in broad day, and in the middle of my own people. in the middle of b. in the middle of: while (something) is going on; during the continuance of (an action, state, or event); (frequently with gerund) fully engaged or occupied in, while, (doing something); ‘in the thick of’. Cf. midst n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > in progress [phrase] > while something is going on in the midst of1535 in midst (of)a1556 in the middle of1609 thick1681 1609 J. More in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 82 As I was yesterday in the middle of removing to my house in the Old Bayley, I [etc.]. 1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes i. 19 They have brought most likely Hopes to nought; And, in the middle of their Courses, tir'd. 1683 E. Brown tr. Plutarch Life Themistocles in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I. 394 It is reported that in the middle of the Fight a great Flame shined bright in the Air above the City of Eleusis. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxiii. 140 We should..be less able to sleep or meditate, than in the middle of a Sea-fight. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 98. ¶3 Many of the Women threw down their Head-dresses in the Middle of his Sermon, and made a Bonfire of them. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xv. 96 I went and went again, in the middle of my wants, and in the middle of my sorrows, to ask..for his pay. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xi. 149 In the middle of this din, the Baron repeatedly implored silence. View more context for this quotation 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 373 I have often been stopped in the middle of a speech. 1901 R. Kipling Kim xii. 322 He is right—a great and a wonderful world—and I am Kim—..one person—in the middle of it all. 1953 H. Clevely Public Enemy xvii. 99 In the middle of reading something, his attention would wander. 1987 E. Leonard Bandits iii. 34 It was like coming in in the middle of a conversation. < as lemmas |
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