medium是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 媒介, 艺术形式; 中庸, 适中; 借以生存之物(或环境) ; a. 中等的, 中庸，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant-generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they had, through the medium of Oblonsky, something in common.
-- Frou-Frou was a beast of medium size, not altogether free from reproach, from a breeder's point of view.
-- She would have been a good figure, too, if it had not been for her extreme thinness and the size of her head, which was too large for her medium height.
-- he asked, noticing a sick man of medium height sitting on a bench, wearing a brown overcoat and white trousers that fell in strange folds about his long, fleshless legs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all, she owed Phileas Fogg her life, and she always regarded him through the exalting medium of her gratitude.
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：
-- He was a man over fifty, bald and griz-zled, of medium height, and stoutly built.
-- He was dressed like a workman and was of medium height, very young, slim, his hair cut in round crop, with thin spare features.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Peggotty fitted her mouth close to the key-hole, anddelivered these words through it with as much feeling andearnestness as a keyhole has ever been the medium ofcommunicating, I will venture to assert: shooting in each brokenlittle sentence in a convulsive little burst of its own.
-- Whateverstation in society I may attain, through the medium of the learnedprofession of which I am about to become an unworthy member, Ishall endeavour not to disgrace, and Mrs. Micawber will be safe toadorn.
-- TheMisses Spenlow added that they begged to forbear expressing,'through the medium of correspondence,' an opinion on the subjectof Mr. Copperfield's communication; but that if Mr. Copperfieldwould do them the favour to call, upon a certain day(accompanied, if he thought proper, by a confidential friend), theywould be happy to hold some conversation on the subject.
-- Iendeavoured to hit a happy medium between these two extremes;my aunt approved the result; and Mr. Dick threw one of his shoesafter Traddles and me, for luck, as he went downstairs.
-- But the principle always failed us by some curiousfatality, and we never could hit any medium between redness andcinders.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, I can do a little that way," said Gabriel, as a man of medium sentiments on the subject.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I moved the table, like a Medium of the present day, by the vigor of my unseen hold upon it.
-- I thought it best to hint, through the medium of a meditative look, that this might be occasioned by circumstances over which I had no control.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Puffing out their poisonous volumes, they would not be long in hiding it; but, for half an hour, some of the many windows were golden, which showed the Coketown people a sun eternally in eclipse, through a medium of smoked glass.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the true medium of our difficulties did not increase, it was within the range of possibility that we might ultimately reach the end of our journey.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the debtor's confined chamber, Mrs Bangham, charwoman and messenger, who was not a prisoner (though she had been once), but was the popular medium of communication with the outer world, had volunteered her services as fly-catcher and general attendant.
-- Then Mrs Bangham, long popular medium of communication with the outer world, began to be infirm, and to be found oftener than usual comatose on pavements, with her basket of purchases spilt, and the change of her clients ninepence short.
-- said Flora, 'with the grapes growing everywhere and lava necklaces and bracelets too that land of poetry with burning mountains picturesque beyond belief though if the organ-boys come away from the neighbourhood not to be scorched nobody can wonder being so young and bringing their white mice with them most humane, and is she really in that favoured land with nothing but blue about her and dying gladiators and Belvederes though Mr F. himself did not believe for his objection when in spirits was that the images could not be true there being no medium between expensive quantities of linen badly got up and all in creases and none whatever, which certainly does not seem probable though perhaps in consequence of the extremes of rich and poor which may account for it.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
-- Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants, a mast, an oar, a nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although the presiding Genii in such an office as this, exercise a summary and arbitrary power over the liberties, the good name, the character, almost the lives, of Her Majesty's subjects, expecially of the poorer class; and although, within such walls, enough fantastic tricks are daily played to make the angels blind with weeping; they are closed to the public, save through the medium of the daily press.
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