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Right in the middle of something, surrounded by it. It's usually used for a situation rather than a physical place — "in the midst of a crisis" means right in the middle of a difficult time. "In our midst" means among us, here with us right now. It's a fairly formal or literary word, more common in writing than in casual talk.
在……之中、正值（較正式╱文學用法）
組成An old form related to "mid," meaning middle.
同家族的字
- midshares the same root meaning middle
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。
midstnoun/mɪdst/
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literaryA place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
- Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
- At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.
midstprep/mɪdst/
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rareAmong, in the middle of; amidst.
- Mildred comes home from work early only to discover her husband, Robert, midst of a lewd affair with their neighbor, Gladys.
- She puts the period often from his place ; And 'midst the sentence so her accent breaks
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。