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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along 'into the midst of the seas,' where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and 'the weeds were wrapped about his head,' and all the watery world of woe bowled over him.
-- In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.
-- Gifted with the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying power; damned, most subtly and most malignantly!damned in the midst of Paradise!Good night good night!
-- It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon, whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a Cholo, the words above.
-- There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of which they went to supper.
-- Everything was so quiet, and neat, and orderly; everybody so kind and gentle; that after the noise and turbulence in the midst of which he had always lived, it seemed like Heaven itself.
-- By degrees, he grew more calm, and besought, in a low and broken voice, that he might be rescued from his present dangers; and that if any aid were to be raised up for a poor outcast boy who had never known the love of friends or kindred, it might come to him now, when, desolate and deserted, he stood alone in the midst of wickedness and guilt.
-- In the midst of all this noise and commotion, there was heard a sweet female voice, which quelled it in an instant.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He may venture without fear of explosion into the midst of the most inflammable gases, and the lantern will burn beneath the deepest waters.
-- This excellent Icelandic woman was the mother of nineteen children, who, little and big, rolled, crawled, and walked about in the midst of volumes of smoke arising from the angular fireplace in the middle of the room.
-- If a road does really present itself by which to descend into the dark and subterraneous bowels of Mother Earth, if this thrice unhappy Saknussemm has really told the truth, we shall be most certainly lost in the midst of the labyrinth of subterraneous galleries of the volcano.
-- It was necessary to walk through the midst of eruptive rocks, some of which, shaken in their balance, went rolling down with thundering clamor to the bottom of the abyss.
-- In the midst of all these horrible sources of anguish and despair, a new horror took possession of my soul.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He very briefly directed the placing of Monsieur Rigaud in the midst of the party, put himself with consummate indifference at their head, gave the word 'march!'
-- To sit speechless himself in the midst of rigid silence, glancing in dread from the one averted face to the other, had been the peacefullest occupation of his childhood.
-- In the midst of this homage, Mr Arthur Clennam offered his arm to Little Dorrit, and Little Dorrit took it.
-- asked Arthur, struck, in the midst of all this, by a certain warmth of heart that expressed itself in her tone when she referred, however oddly, to the youthful relation in which they had stood to one another.
-- In the midst of her rapidity, she had found that out with the quick perception of a cleverer woman.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the music stopped, they sat down on the stairs to get their breath, and Laurie was in the midst of an account of a stu-dents' festival at Heidelberg when Meg appeared in search of her sister.
-- They had a merry time over the bonbons and mottoes, and were in the midst of a quiet game of BUZZ, with two or three other young people who had strayed in, when Hannah appeared.
-- With the delightful enthusiasm of youth, they took the solitary boy into their midst and made much of him, and he found something very charming in the innocent companionship of these simple-hearted girls.
-- In the midst of an animated discus-sion on the domestic habits of turtles (one of those amiable creatures having strolled up from the river), the faint sound of a bell warned them that Hannah had put the tea 'to draw', and they would just have time to get home to supper.
-- 'Well, I was wild to to something for Father,' replied Jo, as they gathered about the table, for healthy young people can eat even in the midst of trouble.
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