| 单词 | our midst |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(in) our (also your, their, its) midst c. With a possessive, usually a plural possessive adjective: (in) our (also your, their, its) midst.This use is scarcely found before the 19th cent.; the solitary example from the 16th cent. does not prove that it was current. Cf. in her middis (= in their midst) in quot. c1475. ΚΠ c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 12 Wickidnesse schal compasce here vp on her wall, and traueil in her middis.] c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxxv. 25 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 228 Not so his dreadfull showes he ceas'd, But did them still in Egipts mid'st renew. 1794 C. John in R. Southey Life A. Bell (1844) I. 205 If we then could have had our dear Dr. Bell in our midst, our pleasures and improvements would have been greatly heightened. 1825 J. Montgomery in Christan Psalmist (1828) 414 Lo, in their midst his form was seen, The form in which He died. 1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire v. 81 When..his shield [should] be hung aloft once more in the camp's midst, a sign of help to the poor and the oppressed. 1867 W. L. Newman in Quest. Reformed Parl. 119 Her vast and available coalfields, her iron mines, the energy of her people, founded cities in her midst. 1869 J. Martineau Ess., Rev., & Addr. (1891) II. 133 The enduring light that broke out in their midst. 1904 C. B. Fry's Mag. June 364/1 The little toy dog of Tibet..is no novelty in our midst. 1942 Yank 14 Oct. 2 English neighbors tasted this clannishness soon after the troopers settled in their midst. 1951 F. R. Kensinger in H. Brickell O. Henry Prize Stories of 1951 146 The parents surmised it, perhaps, at shadowy moments in the night's midst when they lay in uneasy wakefulness. 1987 J. Diski Rainforest ii. 24 Often men from the local village..would drop in to join the company of strangers in their midst. < as lemmas |
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