middle

Danh từ

giữa

in the middle of our century

ở giữa thế kỷ của chúng ta

right in the middle

ở chính giữa

(khẩu ngữ) giữa người, chỗ thắt lưng, chỗ eo

fifty inches round the middle

vòng eo 50 inch

the middle of nowhere

(khẩu ngữ) ở nơi xa xôi hẻo lánh

she lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere

bà ta sống ở một nông trại xa xôi hẻo lánh

pig in the middle

xem pig

Tính từ

ở giữa, trung

the middle house of the three

ngôi nhà ở giữa trong số ba ngôi nhà

[take (follow)] a middle course

giữ thái độ trung dung

* Các từ tương tự:
middle age, middle C, middle class, middle ear, middle finger, middle name, middle school, middle watch, middle-aged

adjective

always used before a noun

equally distant from the ends or sides :halfway between two points

He walked down the middle [=center] aisle.

during the century's middle decades

High temperatures today should be in the middle 80s.

in a state or place between two things or people

He grew up as the middle child in a family with three children. [=he was the child born before the youngest and after the oldest]

Franklin D. Roosevelt's middle initial stood for Delano.

noun

plural middles

[count] a middle part, point, or position

He parts his hair in the middle. [=center]

A good essay will have a clear beginning, middle, and end.

He stood exactly in the middle of the room.

She opened the book to the middle and began to read.

The car stopped in the middle of the road.

The house should be finished by the middle of next summer.

The beginning and ending of the movie were good, but the middle was pretty boring.

Slice the banana right down the middle. [=slice it into two equal parts]

We split the cost down the middle. [=we split the cost equally]

the middle part of a person's body :waist

She put her arms around his middle.

He tied the sash around his middle.

in the middle

in a difficult or unpleasant position

She hated conflict and did not want to be put in the middle.

He was caught in the middle of his parents' divorce. = He was caught in the middle when his parents got divorced.

in the middle of

while (something) is happening or being done :during (something)

The protesters interrupted her in the middle of her speech.

He kept waking up in the middle of the night.

The movie was so bad we walked out right in the middle of it.

in the process of (doing something)

I was in the middle of (eating) dinner [=I was eating dinner] when the phone rang.

in the middle of nowhere

in a place that is far away from other people, houses, or cities

We got lost in the middle of nowhere.

* Các từ tương tự:
middle age, Middle Ages, Middle America, Middle Atlantic, middle C, middle class, middle distance, middle ear, Middle East

adjective

We had reached the middle stage of our journey. Her index finger and middle finger are almost exactly the same length

noun

He lives in the middle of the city. The arrow found the very middle of the target

She wore a red sash round her middle

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middle /'midl/

middle /ˈmɪdn̩/

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