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    Midway, with a capital M, is the name of two small islands — an — in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Honolulu. The United States has used them as a military base. They sit roughly in the middle of the ocean path between North America and Asia, which is why they got the name.

    Midway, with a capital M, is the name of two small islands — an atollMidway，大寫 M，是兩座小島（一個環礁）的名字 in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Honolulu位在太平洋上，檀香山的西北方 The United States has used them as a military base美國曾經把它們當成軍事基地 They sit roughly in the middle of the ocean path between North America and Asia它們大約位在北美和亞洲之間海路的中點 which is why they got the name這就是它們得名的原因

    In 1942 there was a huge sea and air fight there, the Battle of Midway, in the war in the Pacific; history books often treat that battle as the turning point against Japan in that ocean.

    In 1942 there was a huge sea and air fight there一九四二年這裡發生了一場巨大的海空戰 the Battle of Midway, in the war in the Pacific就是太平洋戰爭裡的 the Battle of Midway（中途島戰役） history books often treat that battle as the turning point against Japan in that ocean歷史書常把這場戰役視為太平洋戰場上扭轉對日戰局的轉捩點

    You mainly meet the word in war history, in news about the Pacific, or in films about the birds that nest there. This is the place-name.

    You mainly meet the word in war history, in news about the Pacific你主要會在戰爭歷史、太平洋相關新聞裡遇到這個字 or in films about the birds that nest there或是在講述那裡築巢鳥類的紀錄片裡 This is the place-name這是地名的用法

    It is not the ordinary word midway, meaning 'halfway,' and it is not the strip of games at a fair.

    It is not the ordinary word midway, meaning 'halfway,'它不是普通字 midway，意思是「中途、一半」的那個 and it is not the strip of games at a fair也不是園遊會裡那條遊戲攤位街（midway）

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組成The ordinary English word midway is mid- (middle) + way (path), from Old English midweg. The islands took that name because they sit roughly halfway across the Pacific. Related forms appear in Dutch (midweg).

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  • waythe path/road half of the name
  • midwaythe ordinary word meaning halfway; the islands were named from that idea

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Midwayname/ˈmɪdweɪ/

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    An atoll in the North Pacific the site of a major World War II battle.

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    A village in Belize.

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    A village in British Columbia, Canada.

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    A suburb of Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England.

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    A town in Bullock County, Alabama.

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    A populated place in Maricopa County, Arizona.

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    An unincorporated community in Alameda County, California, United States.

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    An oil field in Kern County, California, United States, properly the Midway-Sunset Oil Field.

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    A neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States.

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    An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

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    An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.

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    An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States.

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    A town in Davidson County, North Carolina.

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    A village in Madison County, Ohio, also called Sedalia.

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    An unincorporated community in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.

midwaynoun/mɪdweɪ/

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    The middle; the midst.

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    A middle way or manner; a mean or middle path between extremes.

    • Prayes, and distroyes the prayer, no midway Twixt these extreames at all.
    • Paths indirect, or in the midway faint.
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    The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated.

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    The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard) along which various buildings are aligned.

midwayadj/mɪdweɪ/

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    Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle.

    • He told me to identify a good midway point at which I could pause the job.
    • A: Where's the ship at currently? B: It is midway.

midwayadv/mɪdweɪ/

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    Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points.

    • He stopped me midway through the job and told me to put it on hold.
    • Originally scheduled to come up mid-way through the alphabetically-ordered agenda by being listed as "Lesbianism," the issue was pushed back to 23 (out of 26 resolutions) with the renaming of it as "Sexual Preference."

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。