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/ˈmɪddeɪ/ · /ˌmɪdˈdeɪ/
The middle of the day, at or around twelve o'clock — the time when the morning ends and the afternoon begins.
中午；正午
核心畫面
Picture the day as an arc running from sunrise to sunset. Midday is the point right at the top of that arc: the sun is overhead, the morning has just finished, the afternoon has not quite begun, and the clock is at or near twelve. The word is built from mid- (middle) + day, so it literally points at the centre of the day rather than at a precise minute.
可以想成一天像一道從日出爬到日落的弧線，midday 就是弧線最高的那一點：太陽在頭頂上、影子最短，早上剛剛結束，下…更多收起
可以想成一天像一道從日出爬到日落的弧線，midday 就是弧線最高的那一點：太陽在頭頂上、影子最短，早上剛剛結束，下午還沒真正開始。字本身是 mid-（中間）加 day（一天），指的是「一天的正中央」，所以它比較像一段時間的中心點，而不是精準到某一分鐘的時刻。原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
middaynoun/mɪdˈdeɪ/
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Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.
- One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.
- The list of potential victories you could achieve with your reset is long, and it includes a fafillion wins that have nothing to do with the scale: Fewer blemishes. Thicker hair. Less join pain. Reduced cravings. No midday energy slump.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。