Midway

(noun.) naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands.

(noun.) the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located.

厄纳校对

• I work about midway between the two places. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Various reasons conspired to cause the departure from Menlo Park midway in the eighties. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Their noses were but longitudinal slits in the center of their faces, midway between their mouths and ears. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Now divide the string into two equal parts by inserting the bridge midway between the two ends; and pluck either half as before. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Or, that if from a high tower two stones, one twice the weight of the other, should be pushed out at th e same moment, the larger would strike the ground while the smaller was still midway? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It was nearly midway between the oak and the house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Midway between the ends of the building a cross wall should be built, and on this a sill should be laid upon which to erect the partition which divides the silo into two compartments. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• They were on the brink of the Lock, about midway between the two sets of gates. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was sent to Mechanicsburg, some miles north-east of Haines' Bluff and about midway between the Big Black and the Yazoo. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Like the green Martians, they have an intermediary set of arms midway between their upper and lower limbs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• That the wild outbursts of insurrection midway in the fifth decade failed and died away was not surprising, for the superincumbent deposits of tradition and convention were thick. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses to talk it over. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In constructing the Britannia Bridge, Mr. Stephenson took advantage of a rock midway from shore to shore, whereon to erect the central pier. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Almost midway between the hopper and the bin is placed an electromagnet whose polar extension is so arranged as to be a little to one side of a stream of material falling from the hopper. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There came, when they were about midway on their journey, a heavy rush of hail, which in a few minutes pelted the streets clear, and whitened them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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