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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, quite as much as Wood, Narborough, and Falkner, who say they are of medium stature.
-- They were Ando-Peruvians, of an olive tint, of medium stature and massive form, with a low forehead, almost circular face, thin lips, high cheekbones, effeminate features, and cold expression.
-- It was the Major who was the medium of communication between these two souls, evidently made for each other.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER V THE BURGLARY AT THE VICARAGE The facts of the burglary at the vicarage came to us chiefly through the medium of the vicar and his wife.
-- "You make the glass invisible by putting it into a liquid of nearly the same refractive index; a transparent thing becomes invisible if it is put in any medium of almost the same refractive index.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her eyes were radiant with the glow of grateful feel-ings; the flush of her beauty was again seated on her cheeks, and her whole soul seemed ready and anxious to pour out its thanksgivings through the medium of her eloquent fea-tures.
-- During the foregoing address the progress of the speaker was too plainly read by those most interested in his success through the medium of the countenances of the men he addressed.
-- There he found David, pouring out his pious feelings through the only medium in which he ever indulged.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to express himself with difficulty, as though words were not the medium with which his mind worked; and you had to guess the intentions of his soul by hackneyed phrases, slang, and vague, unfinished gestures.
-- Brueghel gave me the impression of a man striving to express in one medium feelings more appropriate to expression in another, and it may be that it was the obscure consciousness of this that excited Strickland's sympathy.
-- But whereas his medium was paint, mine has been life."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Sooner, perhaps, than you imagine, my friends," remarked the engineer, "if Lincoln Island is but a medium distance from an inhabited island, or from a continent.
-- They were of a medium size, for their length did not exceed six feet.
-- When winter comes, it restores this heat, which insures for the regions near the ocean a medium temperature, less high in summer, but less low in winter."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't you know,' said Miss Monflathers, 'that it's very naughty and unfeminine, and a perversion of the properties wisely and benignantly transmitted to us, with expansive powers to be roused from their dormant state through the medium of cultivation?'
-- In the parlour window of this little habitation, which is so close upon the footway that the passenger who takes the wall brushes the dim glass with his coat sleeve much to its improvement, for it is very dirty in this parlour window in the days of its occupation by Sampson Brass, there hung, all awry and slack, and discoloured by the sun, a curtain of faded green, so threadbare from long service as by no means to intercept the view of the little dark room, but rather to afford a favourable medium through which to observe it accurately.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the members of the court, wearing gold eye-glasses, of medium height, with high shoulders and frowning countenance, entered.
-- He was a young man of medium height, shaved, lean, with a very dark face and black, sad eyes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed.
-- It is the quietest of seas; its currents are broad and slow, it has medium tides, and abundant rain.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of a hazy atmosphere.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The coat lapels stood out with that medium stiffness which excellent cloth possesses.
-- For a long time this was her only companionship, and the gossip of the manager's wife formed the medium through which she saw the world.
-- The while he was doing this Mrs. Hurstwood was observing him casually through the medium of the mirror which was before her.
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