单词 | middle level |
释义 | > as lemmasmiddle level middle level n. an intermediate level or height, esp. within a hierarchy; in later use frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1861 Times 7 Oct. The penstock-chamber, tide flaps, and overflow channel at the junction of the High Level, the Middle Level, and the Outfall Sewers are works of magnitude and interest. 1862 R. F. Burton City of Saints (ed. 2) iii. 182 Grass carpeted the middle levels, and above all rose red cliffs and buttresses of frowning rock. 1964 P. Worsley in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. xxii. 375 His sociology has a place for..the academics' illusions about power in so far as they stem from their ‘middle-level’ structural position. 1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Nov. 1/2 Scratch a middle-level Statistics Canada bureaucrat and he or she will tell you that it is the ‘Hungarian mafia’ which is running the agency. 1986 G. Johnson Machinery of Mind xv. 279 Hofstadter had been working on programs to recreate what he calls ‘subcognition’, this middle level of the mind. 1991 Japan Forum 3 188 There are quite substantial funds available to create new posts and provide additional middle-level appointments or enhance existing library or research facilities. 1993 Sci. Amer. Apr. 31/1 An atom goes from its initial level to its final one via a ‘virtual’ transition during which it jumps down to the middle level while emitting the first photon. < as lemmas |
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