midst

Word family

midst1 /mɪdst/ noun

1 in the midst of something

a) MIDDLEif you are in the midst of an event or situation, it is happening around you 在某事的进行过程中；正值某事发生的时候

The government is in the midst of a major crisis.

政府正处于重大危机时期。

b) MIDDLEin the middle of a place or a group of things or people 在〔某地〕中部；在〔一堆事物或一群人〕中间

We were sitting in the midst of an elegant and well-dressed audience.

我们坐在一群举止优雅、衣着考究的观众中间。

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in the midst of something• Of course Harry was happy for Jack, but in the midst of that happiness he was also uneasy.• Nor is this the first instance of chivalry in the midst of frenzy.• Now those hopes are fading in the midst of a worrying upsurge in violence.• It's just hard for your Earth dwellers to conjure these all out of a hat in the midst of frustration.• Consider that the Phoenix metropolitan area is in the midst of an apartment construction boom.• Politics occurs in the midst of many changing conditions that can influence those actions.• Deb's in the midst of a messy divorce.• We stood in the midst of thousands of people.• Here was this skinny man, unafraid, in the midst of all this danger.• That brings peace to us in the midst of our outward circumstances.

2 in our/their midst formalINCLUDE in a particular group 在我们/他们当中

I fear we have an enemy in our midst.

我担心我们中间有内奸。

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in our/their midst• As we rushed to prepare to open the Sale there appeared in our midst an unknown young man.• He was the weevil in the fruit, according to Rex, the canker in their midst.• People living in Surrey Street say they are tired of an unhealthy eyesore in their midst.• They insisted that the explosive events occurring in their midst were the work of the Holy Spirit.• Downstairs, when Jessica had stormed out, her parents had found themselves remarkably constrained by the stranger in their midst.• Another athlete with those same qualities now toils in our midst.• But when the others sat for the Scripture readings, Ray McGovern remained upright in their midst, provoking wariness and speculation.• The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and working in our midst.

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midst• Ruin, when you are in its midst, is hard to gauge.• The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and working in our midst.• The best time to nudge children toward functional writing is when they are in the midst of doing purposeful work.• We realise that this is simply a small sacred spot in the midst of environmental carnage.• Here was this skinny man, unafraid, in the midst of all this danger.• In the midst of her burning words her voice broke.• And, into the midst of this crept Jo, trying to escape up to her room without being seen.

midst2 prepositionprep old use

INCLUDEMIDDLEsurrounded by people or things 在…中间，在…之中

Origin midst

(1400-1500) mids “middle” ((13-19 centuries)), from Old English midde ( → MID-)

midst1 nounmidst2 prepositionprep

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