midst的意思|midst的解释-里氏词典

midst [midst]

n. 中间

prep. 在...中间

midst

[ noun ]
the location of something surrounded by other things
<noun.location>
in the midst of the crowd

Midst \Midst\, n. [From middest, in the middest, for older in
middes, where -s is adverbial (orig. forming a genitive), or
still older a midde, a midden, on midden. See {Mid}, and cf.
{Amidst}.]
1. The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used
chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst
of the forest.

And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he
came out of him. --Luke iv. 35.

There is nothing . . . in the midst [of the play]
which might not have been placed in the beginning.
--Dryden.

2. Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or
beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official
duties; in the midst of secular affairs.

Note: The expressions in our midst, in their midst, etc., are
avoided by some good writers, the forms in the midst of
us, in the midst of them, etc., being preferred.

Syn: {Midst}, {Middle}.

Usage: Midst in present usage commonly denotes a part or
place surrounded on enveloped by or among other parts
or objects (see {Amidst}); while middle is used of the
center of length, or surface, or of a solid, etc. We
say in the midst of a thicket; in the middle of a
line, or the middle of a room; in the midst of
darkness; in the middle of the night.

Midst \Midst\, prep.
In the midst of; amidst. --Shak.

Midst \Midst\, adv.
In the middle. [R.] --Milton.

In the midst of these the ripe and rusty Basilio of Nicolay Ghiaurov, with his imposing Slavonic bigness a potential cuckoo in the nest, was all the more effective for his restraint.
L. Harold DeWolf, later told me that Dr. King would telephone him in the midst of these crises, sometimes in the middle of the night.
"We have a duty to respond to the violated in our midst," she said.
In the midst of the worst magazine slump in years, its ad revenue jumped 30% last year, helping the monthly earn a spot on Adweek magazine's list of the 10 hottest magazines with circulation under one million.
But the crisis has put Mrs. Thatcher's Conservative Party on the defense in the midst of its annual convention this week.
It is not so easy in the midst of rural Herefordshire to go and find more customers during a recession.
We are in the midst of a re-evaluation of our tactics.
Poland is in the midst of a rare summer heat wave, with temperatures in the 90s.
The orchestra in November, while musicians were in the midst of a 12-week work stoppage, announced a deficit of $1.4 million for the 1986-87 season, raising its cumulative deficit to $4.1 million against an annual budget of $14 million.
So this talk that I have prospered in the midst of recession is total nonsense. I personally have made a lot of money in my time, despite coming from a working class background in the East End.
"We are now in the midst of the most rapid transformation of the city in its history," says Georgia State University geographer Truman Hartshorn. "For the past 2,000 years the city had just one center.
While Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev appears to have a plan, experts in the West are in the midst of a free-for-all over the tricky, seldom-explored questions of the social, economic and political costs of gearing down for peace.
Gingrich said he held the news conference as soon as he could because he wanted to quickly dispel any notion of wrongdoing in the midst of his campaign for Minority Whip.
The strike hits a company struggling to meet delivery schedules in the midst of its fifth consecutive year of record jetliner orders.
Sybil Thorndike was made a dame in 1931 in the midst of a long and illustrious career in Shakespearean roles.
The stocks of two companies that are in the midst of takeover talks were hurt.
His election to the Senate six years ago, by a margin of under 6,000 votes, was a major upset; incumbent Sen. Howard Cannon's reputation had been soiled in a Teamsters bribery trial in the midst of the campaign.
During that time, Raychem was in the midst of a lengthy and expensive research and development program that continues to this day on a fiber-optics technology it considers a potential gold mine.
The two automakers are in the midst of negotiating an operating agreement that may involve General Motors taking a minority stake in Jaguar.
It is unlikely, though, that agreeing to a wrestling match with Sam Donaldson and the rest of his front-row tag team in the midst of a financial crisis will alter events, except perhaps for the worse.
As its therapists like to say, this country is in the midst of a "psycho-boom."
And there's the occasional shopping sortie, though all they are looking for is Afghani "war rugs" woven by peasants in the midst of conflict with the Soviet Union.
Nordstrom Inc., a Seattle-based retail department store chain in the midst of a national expansion, is another Wall Street favorite that took a recent hit.
Does such a constituency exist across the whole of the developed world? Tightening policy in the midst of an expansion hurts debtors.
In the midst of their torment, some managers found solace.
He's also in the midst of divorcing his American-born wife of 38 years to take up with a former airline stewardess half his age.
Today he is in the midst of liberalizing an economy oriented toward the state since Ottoman times.
As a result, if you have two years of spending money in a money fund, you should be able to avoid cashing in part of your stock-fund portfolio in the midst of a market crash.
At that time, the central bank was in the midst of a yearlong effort to drive interest rates higher to dampen demand and keep inflationary pressure in check.
Algeria is in the midst of a severe economic crisis, in large part because of plummeting oil prices.

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