midst是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 中间， 当中，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burn-ing people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of six-pence.
-- Out of the midst of them, the ghostly face would rise, and he would accost it again.
-- In the midst of the action he went astray, and, with an-other deep sigh, fell to work at his shoemaking.
-- In the midst of a profound stillness, she faintly began: 'When the gentleman came on board ' 'Do you mean the prisoner?'
-- A kettle steamed upon the hob, and in the midst of the wreck of pa-pers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the win-dows, cried out, 'Oh!How beautiful are our Emperor's new clothes!What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!'
-- They were in the midst of the court-yard of a robber's castle.
-- In the midst of the large, old, smoking hall burnt a great fire on the stone floor.
-- Out there, in the midst of the snow, there sat a woman in long, black clothes; and she said, 'Death has been in thy chamber, and I saw him hasten away with thy little child; he goes faster than the wind, and he never brings back what he takes!'
-- One night the stranger awoke he slept with the doors of the balcony open the curtain before it was raised by the wind, and he thought that a strange lustre came from the opposite neighbor's house; all the flowers shone like flames, in the most beautiful colors, and in the midst of the flow-ers stood a slender, graceful maiden it was as if she also shone; the light really hurt his eyes.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was born in the midst of those who had been and are the powerful ones of this world.
-- With what he had in his soul, he felt sore and uncomfortable in the restaurant, in the midst of private rooms where men were dining with ladies, in all this fuss and bustle; the surroundings of bronzes, looking glasses, gas, and waiters--all of it was offensive to him.
-- Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.
-- said Stepan Arkadyevitch, as conspicuously brilliant in the midst of all the Petersburg brilliance as he was in Moscow, his face rosy, and his whiskers sleek and glossy.
-- She was aware of her husband approaching a long way off, and she could not help following him in the surging crowd in the midst of which he was moving.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These descendants of the sect of Zoroaster the most thrifty, civilised, intelligent, and austere of the East Indians, among whom are counted the richest native merchants of Bombay were celebrating a sort of religious carnival, with processions and shows, in the midst of which Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.
-- The locomotive, guided by an English engineer and fed with English coal, threw out its smoke upon cotton, coffee, nutmeg, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which were seen picturesque bungalows, viharis (sort of abandoned monasteries), and marvellous temples enriched by the exhaustless ornamentation of Indian architecture.
-- The train stopped, at eight o'clock, in the midst of a glade some fifteen miles beyond Rothal, where there were several bungalows, and workmen's cabins.
-- Phileas Fogg looked at Sir Francis Cromarty for an explanation; but the general could not tell what meant a halt in the midst of this forest of dates and acacias.
-- The worthy fellow bounced from the elephant's neck to his rump, and vaulted like a clown on a spring-board; yet he laughed in the midst of his bouncing, and from time to time took a piece of sugar out of his pocket, and inserted it in Kiouni's trunk, who received it without in the least slackening his regular trot.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was relieved when Professor Edwards from the midst of his beardedness and smokiness made a sound curiously like "Oh, hell!"
-- In the midst of the tour, led by Dr. Stout and the umbrella-carrying secretary of the University, the plumpest and most educational of all the bankers stopped near Clif Clawson's dissecting-table, with his derby hat reverently held behind him, and into that hat Clif dropped a pancreas.
-- In the midst of their sufferings they had to labor with Fatty Pfaff.
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