中間那一段的學校
同一個名字，兩個國家把中間那個盒子切在不同的位置，於是年紀就不一樣了。讀到這個詞時，先看文章是哪一邊寫的。
noun · A2
In the United States, a school for children of about 11 to 14, which they go to after elementary school and before high school.
中學、國中（美國）
核心畫面
Picture school life as a row of boxes laid end to end. The first boxes are for small children, the last ones are for teenagers. Middle school is the box in the middle, and the word says nothing more than that: it is the part between the early years and the later ones. Because different countries draw the boxes in different places, the same name covers different ages, and the same name can mean either the building or the years you spend in it.
可以想成求學的日子是一排接在一起的盒子。最前面幾個是給小小孩的，最後面幾個是給青少年的。middle school …更多收起
可以想成求學的日子是一排接在一起的盒子。最前面幾個是給小小孩的，最後面幾個是給青少年的。middle school 就是中間那一個盒子，這個詞本身只說了這件事：它是前段和後段之間的那一塊。因為每個國家把盒子切在不同的地方，同一個名字就對應到不同的年紀。也因為它既可以指那棟學校，也可以指你在裡面度過的那幾年，所以同一個詞會有兩種用法。Two branches
中間那一段的時期
同一個盒子，看的不是它的牆，而是你待在裡面的那段時間。英文用有沒有冠詞把這兩件事分開。
noun · A2
The stage of education between primary school and secondary school, spoken about as a period of your life rather than as a building.
國中階段
原始詞典資料2 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。
middle schoolnoun
- 1
educationA school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.
- 2
educationAn educational level or stage between primary school and secondary school.
- These authors argue that lists based on university-level reading material cannot be directly imported into contexts such as middle school since the lexical profiles of subjects and their vocabulary demands are different.
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。