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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fore and aft rose two cages of medium height with inclined sides, and partly closed by thick lenticular glasses; one destined for the steersman who directed the Nautilus, the other containing a brilliant lantern to give light on the road.
-- "Besides," I added, "to fire under water in a medium eight hundred and fifty-five times denser than the air, we must conquer very considerable resistance."
-- Rapid tremblings ran along the mountain caused by internal bubblings, deep noise, distinctly transmitted through the liquid medium were echoed with majestic grandeur.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was a Kulturtr脙陇ger, a medium for the culture of ideas.
-- He, the man, could interpose a perfect, changeless, godlike medium between himself and the Matter he had to subjugate.
-- He was of medium height, attractively built.
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