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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of it Duer came past, trailing after Dean Silva's party, and nodded to Martin, who glared back, feeling noble and mature.
-- His rimless eyeglasses, in the midst of a round smooth face, made him seem innocent.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Timidly and noiselessly a young girl made her way through the crowd, and strange was her appearance in that room, in the midst of want, rags, death and despair.
-- He understood that these feelings really were her secret treasure which she had kept perhaps for years, perhaps from childhood, while she lived with an unhappy father and a distracted stepmother crazed by grief, in the midst of starving children and unseemly abuse and reproaches.
-- This conjecture had begun to grow strong the day before, in the midst of all his alarm and despair.
-- He moved away from the window, shut it, lighted the 710 Crime and Punishmentcandle, put on his waistcoat, his overcoat and his hat and went out, carrying the candle, into the passage to look for the ragged attendant who would be asleep somewhere in the midst of candle-ends and all sorts of rubbish, to pay him for the room and leave the hotel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It isastonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of myporings and blunderings over heavier themes, to read those booksas I did.
-- I was not mistaken; for the mop came intothe schoolroom before long, and turned out Mr. Mell and me, wholived where we could, and got on how we could, for some days,during which we were always in the way of two or three youngwomen, who had rarely shown themselves before, and were socontinually in the midst of dust that I sneezed almost as much as ifSalem House had been a great snuff-box.
-- 'He is right, sir, without correction,' returned Mr. Mell, inthe midst of a dread silence; 'what he has said is true.'
-- In the midst of my distress, I had no notion of going back.
-- In the midst ofthese remarks, Mrs. Markleham cried: 'Where's Annie?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had been arrived only a few minutes, and Mr. Weston had scarcely finished his explanation of Frank's being a day be-fore his time, and her father was yet in the midst of his very civil welcome and congratulations, when she appeared, to have her share of surprize, introduction, and pleasure.
-- Emma watched the entree of her own particular little friend; and if she could not exult in her dignity and grace, she could not only love the blooming sweetness and the artless manner, but could most heartily rejoice in that light, cheerful, unsen-timental disposition which allowed her so many alleviations of pleasure, in the midst of the pangs of disappointed af-fection.
-- There was a little blush, and then this answer, 'I must not hope to be ever situated as you are, in the midst of every dearest connexion, and therefore I cannot expect that simply growing older should make me indiffer-ent about letters.'
-- What has it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit, espionage, and treachery? To come among us with professions of openness and simplicity; and such a league in secret to judge us all! Here have we been, the whole winter and spring, completely duped, fancying ourselves all on an equal footing of truth and honour, with two people in the midst of us who may have been carrying round, comparing and sitting in judgment on sentiments and words that were never meant for both to hear. They must take the conse-quence, if they have heard each other spoken of in a way not perfectly agreeable!'
-- Serious she was, very serious in her thankfulness, and in her resolutions; and yet there was no preventing a laugh, sometimes in the very midst of them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ancient maltster sitting in the midst turned at this his turning being as the turning of a rusty crane.
-- they replied, looking into the very midst of Laban Tall as if to meet his words half-way down his throat.
-- At this moment, on the ridge, up against the blazing sky, a figure was visible, like the black snuff in the midst of a candle-flame.
-- Inside the blue door, open half-way down, were to be seen at this time the backs and tails of half-a-dozen warm and contented horses standing in their stalls; and as thus viewed, they presented alternations of roan and bay, in shapes like a Moorish arch, the tail being a streak down the midst of each.
-- All the ancient men ran in a jumbled throng after her to the clover-field, Joseph sinking down in the midst when about half-way, like an individual withering in a world which was more and more insupportable.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoft-ened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.
-- I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of cau-sation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me a light so brilliant and wondrous, 51yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immen-sity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their in-quiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
-- In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with plea-sure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.
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