英:[ˌmɪdˈdeɪ]
美:[ˈmɪdˌde]
英:[ˌmɪdˈdeɪ]
美:[ˈmɪdˌde]
mid·day
mId deI
noun
the middle part of the day or the time anywhere near or around it.Expect us at midday.
adjective
occurring in the middle of the day.the midday meal
at midday在正午
也可写作 mid-day,意为“白天的中间”,源自古英语 middæg “中午,正午”,缩写自 midne dæg; 参见 mid(形容词)+ day。古弗里西亚语 middei,荷兰语 middag,古高地德语 mittitag,德语 Mittag,古诺尔斯语 miðdagr 也有类似的构词方式。作为形容词,“与正午有关的”,早在14世纪就已经出现。
The first known use of midday was before the 12th century
middlemannoun
go-betweenespecially: a dealer between the producer of goods and the consumer
middlemannoun
go-betweenespecially: a dealer between the producer of goods and the consumer
middlebrownoun
a person who is moderately but not highly educated and refined
middle1 of 2adjective
equally distant from the ends or sides
being at neither extreme : intermediate
of middle size
capitalized constituting an intermediate division or period
Middle Paleozoic
middle2 of 2noun
a middle part, point, or position : center
waist sense 1a
the position of being among or in the midst of something
in the middle of the crowd
middennoun
a refuse heapespecially: a mound (as of shells and bones) marking the place where prehistoric humans once lived
middaynoun
the middle of the day
1 Somewhere around midday I was hiking along, singing a lullaby and rubbing Otto’s foot, when he unexpectedly tumbled from my back.
2 By midday her arms ached, and she could hardly push the vacuum over the thick rugs.
3 I awoke to bright sunlight filling my room. It was already midday.
我一醒来就看见屋里阳光灿烂, 原来已是中午了.
4 Mad dogs and Englishmen, so the song has it, go out in the midday sun.
疯狗和英国人,正如这首歌唱到的那样,正午时分顶着太阳外出。
5 It was midday when they arrived at the place where the village had been.
6 At midday, the children stopped when they caught sight of farmhouses a small distance from the main road.
7 the heat of the midday sun
正午骄阳的热力
8 When she came back at midday and found nothing to eat, she would become furious and beat her son with a hoe, a shovel, anything close at hand.
9 B Yes, it is. The tour stops for lunch at midday.
是的, 午餐包括在内. 中午的时候旅游团提供午餐.
10 Oh I'm not going till midday.
我到中午才走.
11 “There’s no need to make two trips,” Mrs. Richardson had pointed out, but Mia had insisted midday was the best time for her photography.
12 The brothers usually roll into their studio around midday.
兄弟几个总是要到正午前后才姗姗来到工作室。
13 At midday, Zeitoun heard something strange: the sound of buses at the bus station.
14 “We did not choose to be the guardians at the gate, but there is no one else,” Johnson said at his midday press conference.
15 They still followed the hills along the Ystrad valley, but at midday the dwarf turned west and once more began to descend toward the plains.
16 Then a break for midday meal—served outdoors—and back again to the seats, for the Fives, Sixes, Sevens, and finally, last of the first day’s ceremonies, the Eights.
17 A Midday sounds good? C how about 12.30 at coffee shop?
A中午听起来合适 ― ―中午12点半在咖啡厅见面怎么样?
18 By midday Friday, nearly 700,000 Harris County residents were still without power, while authorities were cautioning residents to avoid unnecessary driving — especially in downtown, where streets were littered with glass.
19 AT midday, the heat was so it had its own color, a pulsing, iridescent yellow.
中午时分, 逼人的热浪似乎有了自己的颜色 —— 那是一种脉动的, 闪烁着彩虹颜色的黄.
20 Towards midday, a girl a muffled cry coming from behind one of the walls.
接近中午, 一名女店员听到从一堵墙里传来一阵阵闷闷的叫声.