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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our lights warmed the air about us with their pitchy blaze, and the two prisoners seemed rather to like that, as they limped along in the midst of the muskets.
-- It was full of people; the whole village was there, or in the yard; and there was a surgeon, and there was Joe, and there were a group of women, all on the floor in the midst of the kitchen.
-- She looked at Sarah Pocket with triumph in her weird eyes, and so I left my fairy godmother, with both her hands on her crutch stick, standing in the midst of the dimly lighted room beside the rotten bride-cake that was hidden in cobwebs.
-- He was still a pale young gentleman, and had a certain conquered languor about him in the midst of his spirits and briskness, that did not seem indicative of natural strength.
-- Wemmick's house was a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden, and the top of it was cut out and painted like a battery mounted with guns.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away ran the husband upstairs, and saw thousands of birds sitting upon the floor eating up his corn, with the sparrow in the midst of them.
-- 60 Grimms' Fairy TalesTHE FROG-PRINCE ne fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet Oand clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water, that rose in the midst of it, she sat herself down to rest a while.
-- said they, 'what does the great warrior want here in the midst of peace?
-- Then the maiden changed her-self into a beautiful flower which stood in the midst of a briar hedge, and her sweetheart Roland into a fiddler.
-- The woman went down, and found all three in the midst of their lamentations, and inquired what was the cause; then Elsie told her also that her future child was to be killed by the pick-axe, when it 192 Grimms' Fairy Talesgrew big and had to draw beer, and the pick-axe fell down.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them be-ing admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a propor-tionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:- for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.
-- Now, in the midst of these intestine disquiets, we are threatened with an invasion from the island of Blefuscu, which is the other great empire of the universe, almost as large and pow-erful as this of his majesty.
-- And it must be confessed, that from the great intercourse of trade and commerce between both realms, from the continual reception of exiles which is mutual among them, and from the custom, in each empire, to send 60 Gulliver's Travelstheir young nobility and richer gentry to the other, in order to polish themselves by seeing the world, and understand-ing men and manners; there are few persons of distinction, or merchants, or seamen, who dwell in the maritime parts, but what can hold conversation in both tongues; as I found some weeks after, when I went to pay my respects to the em-peror of Blefuscu, which, in the midst of great misfortunes, through the malice of my enemies, proved a very happy ad-venture to me, as I shall relate in its proper place.
-- In the midst of dinner, my mistress's favourite cat leaped into her lap.
-- Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army, in the midst of peace, and among a free people.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to Mrs. Gradgrind, if she said anything on the subject, she would come a little way out of her wrappers, like a feminine dormouse, and say:'Good gracious bless me, how my poor head is vexed and worried by that girl Jupe's so perseveringly asking, over and over again, about her tiresome letters!Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of.
-- Remarking this at a glance, with the quick observation of his class, Stephen Blackpool bent his attentive face his face, which, like the faces of many of his order, by dint of long working with eyes and hands in the midst of a prodigious noise, had acquired the concentrated look with which we are familiar in the countenances of the deaf the better to hear what she asked him.
-- He thought that he, and some one on whom his heart had long been set but she was not Rachael, and that surprised him, even in the midst of his imaginary happiness stood in the church being married.
-- As Mr. Bounderby stood in the midst of his household gods, so those unrelenting divinities occupied their places around Mr. Bounderby, and they were worthy of one another, and well matched.
-- 'My friends,' Stephen began, in the midst of a dead calm; 'I ha' hed what's been spok'n o' me, and 'tis lickly that I shan't mend it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of this turmoil, preparations went forward for Scarlett's wedding and, almost before she knew it, shewas clad in Ellen's wedding dress and veil, coming down the wide stairs of Tara on her father's arm, to face a housepacked full with guests.
-- How can we endure these scavengers in our midst with their varnished boots when our boys aretramping barefoot into battle?
-- For an eternity, it seemed, theywere in the midst of flaming torment and then abruptly they were in semidarkness again.
-- But the small cloud whichappeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and men into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life, and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.
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