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midst 音标拼音: [m'ɪdst] [m'ɪst] n. 中间,中部,中央,当中 中间,中部,中央,当中 midst n 1: the location of something surrounded by other things; " in the midst of the crowd" [ synonym: { midst}, { thick}] 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}.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him. -- Luke iv. 35. [ 1913 Webster] There is nothing . . . in the midst [ of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Midst \ Midst\, prep. In the midst of; amidst. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Midst \ Midst\, adv. In the middle. [ R.] -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 32 Moby Thesaurus words for " midst": amid, amidst, among, amongst, between, betwixt, betwixt and between, center, core, diameter, diaphragm, equator, heart, interior, kernel, mean, median, mid, middle, midmost, midpoint, midriff, nucleus, over, thick, thick of things, throughout, together with, waist, waistline, with, zone
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