喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture middle as 'the point that sits equally far from both ends' — the centre of a line, with the same distance to the left edge and the right edge. From that one picture everything follows: the centre of a thing in space, the centre of a stretch of time, the centre of a scale (between best and worst), and even being right in the thick of something happening all around you.

可以把 middle 想成「離兩端一樣遠的那一點」——一條線的正中央，往左到邊、往右到邊，距離一樣。所有用法都從這張…更多收起可以把 middle 想成「離兩端一樣遠的那一點」——一條線的正中央，往左到邊、往右到邊，距離一樣。所有用法都從這張圖長出來：空間上的正中央、一段時間的正中段、一把尺上的中間（不上不下、不好不壞），甚至是你正卡在一件事的最中心、四面八方都在發生。

原始詞典資料14 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。

Middlename

  • 1

    A sheading of the Isle of Man.

middlenoun/ˈmɪdl̩/

  • 1

    A centre, midpoint.

    • The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
  • 2

    The part between the beginning and the end.

    • I woke up in the middle of the night.
    • In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.
  • 3

    ball-gamescricketgamesThe middle stump.

  • 4

    The central part of a human body; the waist.

    • If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.
  • 5

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe middle voice.

  • 6

    governmentpoliticsthe center of the political spectrum.

    • As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.
  • 7

    An essay on social or literary issues in a newspaper or magazine, originally placed between the leading articles and the reviews.

    • ‘Did you see the Spec. had a middle on “Rural Tenacities” last week. That was all Huckley.’

middleadj/ˈmɪdl̩/

  • 1

    Located in the middle; in between.

    • the middle point
    • middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages
  • 2

    Central.

  • 3

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsPertaining to the middle voice.

middleverb/ˈmɪdl̩/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo take a middle view of.

    • And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.
  • 2

    obsoletenauticaltransportTo double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.

  • 3

    ball-gamescricketgamesTo strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.

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。