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单词 midstream
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(mɪdstriːm) also mid-stream
1. uncountable noun [oft in NOUN]
Someone or something that is in midstream is in the middle of a river, where the current is strongest.
Their boat had capsized in midstream.
Midstream is also an adverb.
Some of them got caught midstream by the tide.
2. uncountable noun [oft in NOUN]
If someone who has been doing something such as talking stops or pauses in midstream, they stop doing it, often before continuing.
I was cut off in midstream.
Midstream is also an adverb.
The most difficult thing in a fast game of rugby is to change course midstream.

midstream in British English

(ˈmɪdˌstriːm)
noun
1. 
the middle of a stream or river
2. 
the middle of a process or action
they tried to change the rules in midstream
adverb, adjective
3. 
in or towards the middle of a stream or river
moored midstream

midstream in American English

(ˈmɪdˌstrim)
noun
the middle of a stream

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change horses in midstream

Examples of 'midstream' in a sentence
midstream

She found a flat rock, in midstream, to perch on, and from there made an assessment of her situation.
Clive Barker GALILEE (2001)
The narrows are less than eighteen hundred feet and the depth varies from sixty-six fathoms to less than twenty, even in midstream.
Bart Davis DESTROY THE KENTUCKY (2001)
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