单词 | in the midst of |
释义 | > as lemmasin the midst of a. A position or region surrounded or enveloped by something, or a number of things or people. Chiefly in in the midst of (formerly also †among the midst of, etc.): amongst, amid, surrounded by, in the interior or central part of; (without explicit reference to location) during the occurrence or continuance of, fully engaged or occupied in, in the process of; cf. in the middle of at middle n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > position of being in the midst middleeOE mideOE midsa1382 midst1535 the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > position of being among > among [preposition] amongeOE amidOE amongst1258 in (the) mids (of)a1382 in the middle ofc1384 amella1400 amidmonga1500 in the midst of1535 in midst (of)a1556 the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > in progress [phrase] > while something is going on in the midst of1535 in midst (of)a1556 in the middle of1609 thick1681 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke iv. 35 And the deuell threw him in the myddest [1611 middes] amonge them. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Buriall f. xxiiii* In the myddest of lyfe we be in death. 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 10v A woman sitteth crowned in parliament amongest the middest of men. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiii. sig. I2 While you were in the middest of your sport. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xxxii. 109 In the midest of the battell. 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. iv. 12 And the Lord spake vnto you out of the midst of the fire. View more context for this quotation 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 315 To plucke thee out of the middest of a froward and crooked generation. a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 445 Made his Way with his Sword alone..into the middest of their Troops. 1735 G. Berkeley Querist §412 A cold, damp, sordid habitation, in the midst of a bleak country. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 153. ⁋6 In the midst of an adventure. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 46 In the midst of a city vast and wide. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 289 Armies..were kept up in the midst of peace. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. i. 8 From the midst of those smiling heavens he had seen a sword hanging. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 154 Crete, in the midst of the waters lies. 1901 B. T. Washington Up from Slavery i. 1 My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings. 1913 Sat. Evening Post Sept. 10/1 The bull voice of Bron was thrust into the midst of the talk. 1931 H. Read Meaning of Art ii. 87 The Flemish painters seem to assert that the divine can only be discovered in the midst of humanity. 1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down 202 The tiny station was in the midst of its one daily half-hour of alertness. 1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton iii. 57 A wind got up and I had to rise in the middest of the night with a lanthorn to shut fast a door. 1997 Classical Music Mag. Dec. 11/2 Michael Matthews..is in the midst of completing two new works for upcoming premieres by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. < as lemmas |
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