middles

英 [ˈmɪdlz]

美 [ˈmɪdəlz]

n.  中间; 中部; 中央; 中心; 腰部
middle的复数

柯林斯词典

• 霍华德站在房间中央，小口抿着一杯咖啡。 → see:Howard stood in the middle of the room sipping a cup of coffee...
• ADJ 当中的;正中的
  Themiddleobject in a row of objects is the one that has an equal number of objects on each side.
  1. The middle button of his uniform jacket was strained over his belly.
     制服上装中间的纽扣在他的肚子上绷得紧紧的。
  2. ...the middle finger of her left hand.
     她左手的中指
• N-COUNT 腹部;腰部
  Yourmiddleis the part of your body around your stomach.
  1. At age fifty-three, he now has a few extra pounds around his middle...
     53岁的他腰间长了几磅赘肉。
  2. The cook's apron covered her middle.
     厨用围裙裹着她的腰部。
• N-SING (某件事或某段时间的)中期
  The middle ofan event or period of time is the part that comes after the first part and before the last part.
  1. I woke up in the middle of the night and could hear a tapping on the window...
     我半夜里醒来，听见有敲窗户的声音。
  2. It was now the middle of November, cold and often foggy...
     现在是11月中旬，天气寒冷而且经常有雾。
  3. By the middle of 1979, Jimmy Carter was in serious political trouble...
     1979年中期，吉米·卡特陷入了严重的政治困境。
  4. She was born in the middle of a rain storm.
     她出生在一场暴风雨中。
  5. Middleis also an adjective.
     
  6. The month began and ended quite dry, but the middle fortnight saw nearly 100mm of rain fall nationwide.
     本月月初和月末颇为干燥， 不过中旬的两周全国有将近100毫米的降水。
• ADJ （年龄）中间的
  If someone is in theirmiddlethirties, for example, they are aged somewhere approximately between thirty-four and thirty-six.
  1. She knew he was in his middle fifties, although he looked much younger...
     尽管他看上去年轻得多，她知道他在55岁左右。
  2. I went on competing till I was in my middle forties.
     我继续参赛，直到45岁左右。
• ADJ (兄弟姐妹中)年龄居中的，排行居中的
  Themiddlechild in a family has equal numbers of younger and older brothers and sisters.
  1. His middle son died in a drowning accident five years back.
     他排行居中的那个儿子5年前意外溺水身亡。
• ADJ 折中的;中庸之道的;不走极端的
  Themiddlecourse or way is a moderate course of action that lies between two opposite and extreme courses.
  1. He favoured a middle course between free enterprise and state intervention...
     他更倾向于在自由经营与国家干预之间走一条中庸之道。
  2. The Mayor of Jerusalem has tried to minimise conflict by maintaining a middle way between the various religions.
     耶路撒冷市市长对各宗教采取折中的态度，力图使冲突最小化。
• PHRASE 平均（分配）;把…一分为二
  If you divide or split somethingdown the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
  1. They agreed to split the bill down the middle...
     他们同意均摊费用。
  2. If the conservatives are not removed, then the party will almost certainly split down the middle.
     如果不除掉保守势力，那么这个党几乎肯定会分裂成两派。
• PHRASE 正忙于
  If you arein the middle ofdoing something, you are busy doing it.
  1. It's a bit hectic. I'm in the middle of cooking for nine people...
     我正忙着为9个人做饭呢，有点儿忙不过来。
  2. He was always in the middle of a business transaction.
     他总是忙着做生意。

双语例句

• The talk command clears your screen and draws a dotted line across the middles.
  talk命令会清屏，并在屏中间画一条点线。
• But they had lost significant amounts of fat from around their middles, while adding lean muscle.
  但他们身体中段的脂肪量已经显著减少，肌肉量却不断增加。
• I graduated from middles school in1988.
  我是1988年从中学毕业的。
• Depression and anxiety of 179 middles school students were investigated with self-rating scales of depression and anxiety.
  应用抑郁和焦虑症状自评量表，调查了179名中学生的情绪状况、以及与学业成绩的相互关系。
• On Music Education and Character Education in Middles Schools in Western Rural Areas
  论音乐教育与西部农村中学素质教育
• Three conditions needed in the teachers 'participation of curriculum leadership are proposed on the basis of the case analysis of J junior middles school in Zhenjiang. The three conditions are teachers' psychology identity, administrative management system guarantee and teachers 'ability on curriculum.
  在对镇江市J小学的个案分析的基础上，提出了教师参与课程领导所应具备的三个条件：教师的心理认同；行政管理制度保障和教师自身具备的课程能力。
• Professor Salmon, who reviewed dozens of studies into the effect of birth order for her book The Secret Power of Middle Children, said: As children, middles have to wait a lot.
  萨尔蒙教授在完成《排行中间孩子的神秘力量》一书时，对几十个家庭进行了跟踪研究，以探知家中排行会对孩子成长产生何种影响。她发现：排行中间的孩子经常需要等待。
• Middles are accustomed to not getting what they want right away.
  他们习惯于不会立即得到想要的东西。
• Especially, from the middles 1990s, Chine started a series of market-oriented banking reforms, which brought about banking spatial system great change.
  特别是20世纪90年代中期以来国有商业银行市场化改革的推进使我国银行业空间系统开始在一条新的路径上发展。
• Don't neglect the middles of tubes.
  不要忽视管的中段。